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Re: Implementing Time-outs in IDL [message #7704 is a reply to message #7703]

Sat, 04 January 1997 00:00

steinhh
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Registered: June 1994

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In article <XXX-0301972303470001@biad27.uthscsa.edu>, XXX (Steve) writes:
|> If the daemon server is off-line the spawn command hangs. Is there a way
|> in IDL to cause a command to time-out? I would like my program to continue
|> executing if the spawn command does not return a result in X seconds.

Probably the best thing would be to rewrite your spawned command so that
you can start it in the background, piping the results to a file for
retrieval by IDL. I.e.,

spawn,"daemon > daemon.out &"
wait,10
<read file daemon.out>

Stein Vidar H. Haugan

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