From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-06-17T01:07:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout lengthy external executable


On Jun 16, 2008, at 1:25 AM, Ema Fuma wrote:

> 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

it's not ruby per-se, but the interaction of select on windows.  you  
haven't yet said - what platform are you on?

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