From: Zhukov Pavel <gelios@...>
Date: 2008-06-30T19:08:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Sleep in a multithreaded environment

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Me Me <emanuelef@tiscali.it> wrote:
> 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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>

oh, sorry.: io=select([pipe],nil,nil,10)

no, you does't, just add code if you want to catch exeption there