From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T20:21:44+09:00
Subject: Re: alarm?

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On 25/09/06 Logan Capaldo said:

> % cat alarm.rb
> trap("ALRM") do
>   puts "Alarm!"
> end
>=20
> Process.kill("ALRM", $$)
>=20
>=20
> % ruby alarm.rb
> Alarm!

But that doesn't tell the OS to send a SIGALRM at a predefined time. I've
found the timeout library, and implemented what I needed with that, but isn=
't
the alarm() system call exposed in Ruby? It is in Perl and Python.

Thanks,
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein

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