Message85266
Ugh. I made the assumption that there must be some natural and easy way
to wait for a child process with a timeout in C, and it turns out it's
actually a hard problem, which is why this isn't already implemented.
So my initial hack for solving this problem in my own project was to run
the subprocess, spawn a thread to wait on it, and then use the thread's
wait method, which does accept a timeout. On further inspection, it
turns out that Thread.wait() actually uses a busy loop to implement the
timeout, which is what I was trying to avoid. If it's okay to have a
busy loop there, is it okay to have one in Popen.wait()? Obviously, you
don't need to busy loop if there is no timeout. |
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2009-04-02 20:49:01 | rnk | set | recipients:
+ rnk, giampaolo.rodola |
2009-04-02 20:49:01 | rnk | set | messageid: <1238705341.32.0.114796377393.issue5673@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2009-04-02 20:49:00 | rnk | link | issue5673 messages |
2009-04-02 20:48:59 | rnk | create | |
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