From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2004-10-06T14:04:49+09:00
Subject: Timeout::timeout and Socket timeout


Hi ..


I would like to suggest that Socket trap ETIMEDOUT and raise Timeout::Error 
when a socket timeout occurs.  This would allow the following:

   begin
     Timeout::timeout(to) do
         t = TCPSocket.new(host,port)
               #
               # do socket stuff
               #
         t.close
      end
   rescue Timeout::Error => e
      p "Timeout --> #{e}"
   rescue Exception => e
        p "Exception --> #{e}"
   end

Rather than having a separate rescue clause.

Any thoughts?

-- 
-mark.  (probertm @ acm dot org)