Hello 9fans, I have a bunch of threads, simply scheduled with yield() at the moment (I'll use alt later on), and each of them is calling dial() at some point. I don't want the other threads to wait for "too long" when one of them is blocked on a dial() that will eventually time out. So I was thinking, for each of them, of creating a proc which would be used as a timer; it would be created just before the call to dial, wait for some time, and then kill the dial()ing thread. And as mechiel suggested, the dial()ing thread would also be set to kill the timer after it successfully dialed, hence not being killed if it was fast enough.
Is that the right way to go? If yes, can anyone think of an already existing example I can look at? Mathieu
