MB> This will not achieve what I want.  The goal is to time out a Rexx 
 MB> function call -- in the RXFTP library, as it happens -- 
 MB> if it takes too long.  The idea is that I am starting 
 MB> an FTP session and do not want to hang forever if the 
 MB> FTP server goes away unilaterally.  Ideally, the RXFTP 
 MB> library would have the necessary timeout facility built 
 MB> into it, but it doesn't.  I am willing to have the 
 MB> whole Rexx program die if a timeout expires; I just 
 MB> want to guarantee that the Rexx program terminates 
 MB> somehow within a specified worst case maximum amount of 
 MB> time.  If the Rexx program is still running well enough 
 MB> to make calls to the time() function, then I don't need 

Try using Watcom's VX-REXX to get multi-threading.  :-)

(That's at least one of the DLL's available for multi-threading...)



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