From: Me Me <emanuelef@...>
Date: 2008-06-28T20:14:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout when reading from a pipe

Hi, still on the subject I'm trying to understand if under Windows
I can emit and trap custom signals from two processes.
It should be something like this:

open("|-", "r") do |child|
 if child
    child.each("\n") do |line|
  puts line
        # emit signal
  end
  child.close
 else
  exec("ls", "-l")
        # trap signal checking a timeout
        # if signal not received for more than 10 secs close child\
        # and go on
 end
end

Is there a way to implement what specified in the commented lines?

Thanks in advance
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