From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T03:55:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Frustrated: System call timeouts

Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:42 AM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>       begin
>>         block.call
>>       ensure
>>         Process.kill 'TERM', signaler.pid rescue nil
>>         Signal.trap('TERM', handler)
>>       end
> 
> Ara, thank you _so_ much for this.
> 
> I would never have thought of spawning suicidal terminator ruby
> processes to nuke my process :)  But works well.


There's also a timeout replacement lib [though I haven't tried it].
http://ph7spot.com/articles/system_timer
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