From: tonys@... (tony summerfelt)
Date: 2000-12-21T03:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7779] Re: how to timeout as system call?

On 18 Dec 2000 22:23:48 -0800, Phil Tomson wrote:

> I need to be able to kill system commands which have run too long.  I
> tried the following code to no avail:

a 'timeout' comment like expect has would be a nice addtion to ruby...

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