[erlang-questions] Gracefully timeout during erlang:port_call/3?

[Ahmed Omar]

Not sure if there is a graceful way , but you can spawn the call in a
process that will be terminated after some timeout. This will terminate the
calling process, but if it will affect the port driver depends i guess it
depends on the port

timer:kill_after(Timeout, spawn(erlang, port_call, [Port, Operation,
Data])).

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:58 AM, zabrane Mikael <zabrane3@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Is there a way to gracefully timeout (i.e without crashing the port
> driver) during the synchronous call to "erlang:port_call/3"?
> The idea here is to try to timeout if the port takes long time to return.
>
> Any advice is welcome?
> --
> Regards
> Zabrane
>
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