From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-02-07T16:42:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout

On Feb 6, 2006, at 11:18 PM, eastcoastcoder@gmail.com wrote:

> Does Ruby's Timeout know about time spent outside of Ruby's
> interpreter?

Did you try it?  It is really, really easy, especially with irb.

> For instance, will it call Timeout in the model of long syscalls (ie,
> blocking io which is taking too long).

require 'timeout'
require 'socket'

s = TCPSocket.new 'localhost', 80
Timeout.timeout 5 do s.read end

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