#-- # = timeout.rb # # execution timeout # # = Copyright # # Copyright:: (C) 2000 Network Applied Communication Laboratory, Inc. # Copyright:: (C) 2000 Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan # #++ # # = Description # # A way of performing a potentially long-running operation in a thread, and # terminating it's execution if it hasn't finished within fixed amount of # time. # # Previous versions of timeout didn't use a module for namespace. This version # provides both Timeout.timeout, and a backwards-compatible #timeout. # # = Synopsis # # require 'timeout' # status = Timeout::timeout(5) { # # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time... # } # module Timeout ## # Raised by Timeout#timeout when the block times out. class Error