Natan wrote: > Hi. > > I have a python script under linux where I poll many hundreds of > interfaces with mrtg every 5 minutes. Today I create some threads and > use os.system(command) to run the process, but some of them just hang. > I would like to terminate the process after 15 seconds if it doesn't > finish, but os.system() doesn't have any timeout parameter. > > Can anyone help me on what can I use to do this?
The new subprocess module has that functionality. If your python version doesn't have that you could try my unix specific version: http://www.pixelbeat.org/libs/subProcess.py Pádraig. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
