From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-06-23T23:34:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout when reading from a pipe


On Jun 23, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Me Me wrote:

> Hi,
> I would like to launch a process (external executable) and raise an
> exception if I cannot read any output from it on the stdout.
> Is that possible?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> def execute_mencoder(command)
>  IO.popen(command) do |pipe|
>   pipe.each("\r") do |line|
>         puts line
>   end
>  end
>  raise MediaFormatException if $?.exitstatus != 0
> end

if you are windows no, otherwise yes.

ri Timeout

if you are on windows you'll want the systemu gem

gem install systemu

regards.

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