From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T07:46:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-Threaded Timeout?


On Aug 12, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Bryan Richardson wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I hate Windows. :)
>
> I did a few tests (all-be-it I came up with the tests, so that might
> be the problem) and it does seem like IO.popen is blocking...
>
> IO.popen "ruby -e 'sleep(20); STDERR.puts \"Popped!\"'"
> sleep(10)
> puts "Hello"
> sleep(15)
> puts "Hi"
>
> Output was:
> Popped!
> Hello
> Hi
>
> I CAN'T CATCH A BREAK ANYWHERE!!!!  Argh... this is why I don't
> develop on Windows! :(

see if you can sort of get it going with system - i know you can  
cancel it, but you might be able to work around that later....

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