From: Ema Fuma <emanuelef@...>
Date: 2008-06-16T16:25:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout lengthy external executable

> i'm 99% positive that trying to read from the pipe will conflict with
> the timeout method - because of the way ruby uses green threads it's
> easy to lock up threads where io is concerned.  sometimes select can
> be used but it's a case by case basis for mixing threads, io, and non-
> blocking behaviour on windows.  YMMV.

Ok, I thought I was doing something wrong, or not using the right 
method.
Maybe I should use some customized timeout?
To me it looked strange that in a scripting language like Ruby it was 
impossible to timeout certain operations and I thought someone else 
found a solution.
Thanks

bye
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