`Command` timeouts?

#1

Hi all,

I'm running Commands in a threadpool::ThreadPool, and I need to apply a timeout to each command (i.e., I don't want them running longer that x number of minutes).

I've tried using the try_wait function on a Child in a loop, things seem to get hung up and never finish.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

#2

Can you post your loop?

#3

Unfortunately I trashed it, but it went something like this:

let exe_path = // ... a PathBuf ..
let mut command = Command::new(&exe_path);
// ... set up the command's arguments and working directory
let mut child = command.spawn().unwrap();
loop {
    match child.try_wait() {
        Ok(Some(status)) => {
            // gather the stdout and stderr into an Output struct
            break;
        }
        Ok(None) => {
            // if it's been too long since we spawned the child process kill it and break
        }
        Err(e) => {
            child.kill().expect("unable to kill process");
            break;
        }
    }
}
#4

I mean it looks reasonable to me.

Note that you should probably call yield_now or similar in the loop to sleep a little bit, although I don't think that's the problem.

#5

Oh, good call on yield_now.

I also tried to put child.wait() at the beginning of the Ok(Some(status)) but that didn't help either (the documentation mentions that it's necessary on some systems for releasing resources)...