On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Andre Nathan wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Ruby/Watchcat 1.0.0.
>
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so, in effect, this is a Timeout::timeout based on a child process?

look handy for some of the work i'm doing now - which is a 24x7 satellite
ingest system which spawns many processes which can potentially hang...

-a
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