timeout.rb

Path: timeout.rb
Last Update: Sat Oct 15 23:44:28 AUS Eastern Standard Time 2005

timeout.rb

execution timeout

Synopsis

  require 'timeout'
  status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
    # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
  }

Description

A way of performing a potentially long-running operation in a thread, and terminating it’s execution if it hasn’t finished by a fixed amount of time.

Previous versions of timeout didn’t provide use a module for namespace. This version provides both Timeout.timeout, and a backwards-compatible timeout.

Copyright

Copyright:(C) 2000 Network Applied Communication Laboratory, Inc.
Copyright:(C) 2000 Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan

Methods

timeout  

Constants

TimeoutError = Timeout::Error   Another name for Timeout::Error, defined for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of timeout.rb.

Public Instance methods

Identical to:

  Timeout::timeout(n, e, &block).

Defined for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of timeout.rb, see Timeout#timeout.

[Source]

# File timeout.rb, line 61
def timeout(n, e=Timeout::Error, &block)
  Timeout::timeout(n, e, &block)
end

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