From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-08-08T11:39:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19323] Re: timeout blocks

Hello --


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Joseph McDonald wrote:

>
> 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.

Wouldn't it work just to say:

  s = nil

before the block?


David

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