From: Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>
Date: 2009-07-23T00:48:34+09:00
Subject: Re: timer examples

Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 22. Jul 2009, 07:25:14 +0900 schrieb Mathspeedy:
>> I think the title says it all,
>> I would like to see some timer examples,
> 
> I examined the whole interpreter source code and could not find
> any way to call alarm() or setitimer() by Ruby methods. I really
> miss that!
> 
> Bertram
> 
> 
There's a Timeout method I use that has been superior to anything I could find 
in Python, and was a reason for me using Ruby instead at one point:

>     begin
>         Timeout::timeout(OverallTimeout) do |tl|
>             # Until I find out what this is, Screw it!
>             # No doc on tl anymore!
>             #puts "tl:  #{tl}"
>             probe_threads.each { |t|  t.join }
>             puts "All probe threads collected."
>         end
>     rescue Timeout::Error => eo
>         puts "#{eo.message}, exiting before joining all probe threads."
>     end

As you see by my comment above, some of the docs are not to my satisfaction. 
Still, I have been using this happily since 2007.
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