On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:23 AM, mk <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On paramiko mailing list I got the suggestion to build a timer and then > quit this by myself: > > The timeout option in connect() is for the socket, not for the entire >> operation. You are connected, so that timeout is no longer relevant. >> You would probably have to wrap the transport.connect() method in a >> timer to break out of this early. >> > > Question: how can I do that? Use another threaded class? Is there some > other way? >
What OS? Does this have to be OS-independant? Are you using more then one transport/SSLClient in your process and you want to just kill one (and any of its child threads), or are you doing one per process? If you want to terminate -all- threads your process is running in a given timeframe, using a SIGALRM in the signal module will do it, I believe-- provided you don't need to support windows. I had a contextlib manager do that for awhile. If you only want to terminate one (and its child-threads)... you're out of luck, I think. The only way to terminate a thread in Python is with conditions/events/whatever and the thread cooperating and exiting on its own. --S
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