Dead Man Timer?

[Steve Holden]

"Neil Everhart" <neilhart at attbi.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:FrOc9.110025$_91.144030 at rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> Itamar,
>
> Thank you for the suggestion.  I will test the timeoutsocket.py code
> tomorrow
> on my target setup.  I have incorporated it into a version of my script
but
> can not really evaluated it until I am running in the terminal server
> environment.
>
> Neil.
>
> --
>
>
> "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" <itamar at itamarst.org_NOSPAM> wrote in message
> news:3D728103.5060308 at itamarst.org_NOSPAM...
> > 1. Use timeoutsocket.py - this lets you set timeouts on socket
operations
> > (find it on http://py.vaults.ca).
> >
> > 2. Use an event driven networking architecture - don't know of any that
> have
> > telnet client support though.
> >
> > Option 1 is your easiest solution.
> >

Note that similar functionality is currently planned for 2.3. Changes have
been checked in.

regards
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