[chuck-users] implementing a "wait for signal with timeout"

[Hans Aberg]

On 9 Jun 2009, at 16:57, N. Cameron Britt wrote:

> Attached is a solution I came up with for this problem that I used  
> in my PLOrk piece this spring. I spork a "possibility" for something  
> to happen, which waits on an event. Immediately after I spork a  
> "timeout" shred that kills the possibility shred if the event  
> doesn't come in time.
>
> One downside of this (I'm sure there are others I haven't thought  
> of!)  is that using Machine.remove causes stuff to print in the  
> console. To get rid of that I piped the output to grep. From the  
> command line run:
> chuck timeout.ck 2>&1 | grep -v removing

You can also send it to /dev/null.

But 'chuck' printing causes time delays - and I think it is internal.

   Hans