with timeout(...):

Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 00:34:09 EDT 2007


On Mar 27, 3:28 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> Nick Craig-Wood <n... at craig-wood.com> writes:
> > It could be made to work I'm sure by getting the interpreter to check
> > for timeouts every few hundred bytecodes (like it does for thread
> > switching).
>
> Is there some reason not to use sigalarm for this?

 * doesn't work with threads
 * requires global state/handler
 * cross-platform?

-Mike




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