[jerf]

For the small benefit of making timeout calls slightly prettier, I incur the small-but-probably-net-greater risk that there is some bug, subtle or otherwise, in this code, along with a motley assortment of other issues I usually gloss over but start being significant when we're talking about such small benefits, like adding a dependency and having to worry about the licensing situation. (Even just having to worry about something that turns out to be "public domain" is something to judge.) Net net I'd personally judge it a loss; YMMV, no sarcasm. I would generally analyze any NIH solution that solves such a small problem in the same way. It is, perhaps, one place where NIH is appropriate.