# Copyright:: (C) 2000 Network Applied Communication Laboratory, Inc.
# Copyright:: (C) 2000 Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
# A way of performing a potentially long-running operation in a thread, and
# terminating it's execution if it hasn't finished within fixed amount of
# Previous versions of timeout didn't use a module for namespace. This version
# provides both Timeout.timeout, and a backwards-compatible #timeout.
# status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
# # Something that should be interrupted if it takes too much time...
# Raised by Timeout#timeout when the block times out.
class ExitException < ::Exception # :nodoc:
THIS_FILE = /\A#{Regexp.quote(__FILE__)}:/o
CALLER_OFFSET = ((c = caller[0]) && THIS_FILE =~ c) ? 1 : 0
# Executes the method's block. If the block execution terminates before +sec+
# seconds has passed, it returns true. If not, it terminates the execution
# and raises +exception+ (which defaults to Timeout::Error).
# Note that this is both a method of module Timeout, so you can 'include
# Timeout' into your classes so they have a #timeout method, as well as a
# module method, so you can call it directly as Timeout.timeout().
def timeout(sec, klass = nil)
return yield if sec == nil or sec.zero?
raise ThreadError, "timeout within critical session" if Thread.critical
exception = klass || Class.new(ExitException)
x.raise exception, "execution expired" if x.alive?
rej = /\A#{Regexp.quote(__FILE__)}:#{__LINE__-4}\z/o
(bt = e.backtrace).reject! {|m| rej =~ m}
level = -caller(CALLER_OFFSET).size
while THIS_FILE =~ bt[level]
raise if klass # if exception class is specified, it
# would be expected outside.
raise Error, e.message, e.backtrace
y.join # make sure y is dead.
# Timeout::timeout(n, e, &block).
# Defined for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of timeout.rb, see
def timeout(n, e = nil, &block) # :nodoc:
Timeout::timeout(n, e, &block)
# Another name for Timeout::Error, defined for backwards compatibility with
# earlier versions of timeout.rb.
TimeoutError = Timeout::Error # :nodoc:
p timeout(5, TimeoutError) {