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-#
-# timeout.rb -- execution timeout
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2000  Network Applied Communication Laboratory, Inc.
-# Copyright (C) 2000  Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
-#
-#= SYNOPSIS
-#
-#   require 'timeout'
-#   status = timeout(5) {
-#     # something may take time
-#   }
-#
-#= DESCRIPTION
-#
-# timeout executes the block.  If the block execution terminates successfully
-# before timeout, it returns true.  If not, it terminates the execution and
-# raise TimeoutError exception.
-#
-#== Parameters
-#
-#  : timout
-#
-#    The time in seconds to wait for block teminatation.   
-#
-#=end
-
-class TimeoutError<Interrupt
-end
-
-def timeout(sec, exception=TimeoutError)
-  return yield if sec == nil
-  begin
-    x = Thread.current
-    y = Thread.start {
-      sleep sec
-      x.raise exception, "execution expired" if x.alive?
-    }
-    yield sec
-#    return true
-  ensure
-    y.kill if y and y.alive?
-  end
-end
-
-if __FILE__ == $0
-  p timeout(5) {
-    45
-  }
-  p timeout(5) {
-    loop {
-      p 10
-      sleep 1
-    }
-  }
-end