From: Andre Nathan <andre@...>
Date: 2003-12-22T01:24:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Scheduling alarms

nobu.nokada@softhome.net said:
> You can also use timeout.rb.

This will probably be fine for what I need, but it would be nice to have a
way
to activate the alarm independently from the timeout specified on the script
(as in `kill -ALRM foo.rb'). Is there a reason why this isn't possible or
it's
just not implemented yet? (I read some old messages to ruby-talk that said
SIGALRM was "reserved", because it was used by the interpreter. Is that
true?)

Thanks
Andre