From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2001-08-08T11:36:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19322] timeout blocks


Hi,

I have a bit of a chicken and egg problem here.  I want to use timeout
to initiate a socket connection, but have a timeout on the connection.
However if I use Timeout, the socket is out of scope by the time I
get connected.  Can I somehow declare "s" as a socket above without
trying to connect?

  begin
    timeout(5) do
      s = TCPSocket.new(host, port)
    end
  rescue TimeoutError
    puts "failed initial connect, retrying..."
    retry
  rescue
    puts "failed #{$!}... retrying"
    retry
  end
  # s is no longer available here.

thanks,
-joe