Re: Calling a C function with a timeout

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:04:48 Chris Clark wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for providing an English equivalent of the content for the rest of us. 
At least I'm hoping that this is what Michel was saying ...

Guy

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