From: Ema Fuma <emanuelef@...>
Date: 2008-06-17T01:41:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout lengthy external executable

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

I'm under Windows but I would like to use the same script on Linux.
Basically it's just
-launch an external executable that write it's progress on stdout
-parse the stdout line by line
-if there's no new line for more than 10 sec close the external exe

Thanks
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