Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 13/08/05 Bryan Olson said: > > > The seperate thread-or-process trick should work. Start a deamon > > thread to do the gethostbyname, and have the main thread give up > > on the check if the deamon thread doesn't report (via a lock or > > another socket) within, say, 8 seconds. > > Wouldn't an alarm be much simpler than a whole thread just for this?
You mean a Unix-specific signal? If so that would be much less portable. As for simpler, I'd have to see your code. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
