How to timeout in a function call

[hendri54]

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Help writing a timeout macro

I’ll just leave my approach here… macro timeout(expr, seconds=-1, cb=(tsk) -> Base.throwto(tsk, InterruptException())) quote tsk = @task $expr schedule(tsk) if $seconds > -1 Timer((timer) -> $cb(tsk), $seconds) end return fetch(tsk) end end julia> @timeout (sleep(3); println("done")) 3.1 done julia> @timeout (sleep(3); println("done")) 3 ERROR: TaskFailedException: InterruptException: Stacktrace: [1] try_yieldto(::typeof(Base.ensu…

Unless you can use download for this task.