commit d45f89dbce487aec2a3988138966387da55adaf5 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Fri Mar 8 07:57:28 2013 -0800

Clarifying requirements for timing out launch_tor()

The signal timeout we were doing isn't just *nix specific, but relies on global state. It turns out that no languages really have a good method for doing this sort of arbitrary timeout - pity...

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/08/22/how-not-to-set-a-timeout-on-a-comput... --- stem/process.py | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stem/process.py b/stem/process.py index 0764d7f..e848140 100644 --- a/stem/process.py +++ b/stem/process.py @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ def launch_tor(tor_cmd = "tor", args = None, torrc_path = None, completion_perce default, but if you have a 'Log' entry in your torrc then you'll also need 'Log NOTICE stdout'.

- Note: The timeout argument does not work on Windows (`ticket - https://trac.torproject.org/5783`_) + Note: The timeout argument does not work on Windows, and relies on the global + state of the signal module.

:param str tor_cmd: command for starting tor :param list args: additional arguments for tor