Reid Kleckner <r...@mit.edu> added the comment: Ugh. I made the assumption that there must be some natural and easy way to wait for a child process with a timeout in C, and it turns out it's actually a hard problem, which is why this isn't already implemented.
So my initial hack for solving this problem in my own project was to run the subprocess, spawn a thread to wait on it, and then use the thread's wait method, which does accept a timeout. On further inspection, it turns out that Thread.wait() actually uses a busy loop to implement the timeout, which is what I was trying to avoid. If it's okay to have a busy loop there, is it okay to have one in Popen.wait()? Obviously, you don't need to busy loop if there is no timeout. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5673> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
