From: Me Me <emanuelef@...>
Date: 2008-06-30T18:45:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Sleep in a multithreaded environment

Zhukov Pavel wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Me Me <emanuelef@tiscali.it> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot in advance
>>  end
>>  k = n
>> end
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>>
>>
> 
> pipe=IO.popen("executable.exe")
> io=select([io],nil,nil,10) #10 - timeout
> if io==nil
>    puts "DEAD"
>    t1.raise("close")
> end

Hi,
thanks for answering, I tried your code but I get:
test_th.rb:20:in `select': can't convert nil into IO (TypeError)

Besides it's not clear to me what is done by the select.
Do I still need the thread t1 then?
Bye
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