I have a ruby timeout that calls a system (bash) command like this..
Timeout::timeout(10) {
`my_bash_command -c12 -o text.txt`
}
but I think that even if the ruby thread is interrupted, the actual command keeps running in the background.. is it normal? How can I kill it?
I think you have to kill
it manually:
require 'timeout'
puts 'starting process'
pid = Process.spawn('sleep 20')
begin
Timeout.timeout(5) do
puts 'waiting for the process to end'
Process.wait(pid)
puts 'process finished in time'
end
rescue Timeout::Error
puts 'process not finished in time, killing it'
Process.kill('TERM', pid)
end