forkexec

• It’s usefull for timeout actions running outside ruby eg. external system calls.

• Executes given block in new forked process.

• After timeout the forked process is killed and Timeout::Error is raised.

• Return value of forked prcess is given through tmpfs in /dev/shm as serialized YAML object.

• It’s prototype = no tests, no doc, no warranty !

example

> require 'forkexec'
=> true 

> ForkExec.timeout(1){ exec "sleep 10"}
Timeout::Error: PID 11185 timeouted
        from ./forkexec.rb:28:in `timeout'
        from (irb):2
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/rbconfig.rb:168

> ForkExec.timeout(1){ "foo bar" if true} 
=> "foo bar"

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 Adam Kliment. See LICENSE for details.