Re: Calling a C function with a timeout

Michel Claveau wrote:
> Je pense que, en passant par subprocess, ça irait mieux. En effet, on a 
> terminate()  à disposition.
>   

I concur, either use a subprocess (as suggested by Michel) which you can 
then kill, or modify the C code to support a time out. This isn't 
something you can deal with as you surrendered the stack to the 
function, it is now in control until it returns.

Chris


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