' class='copiable-anchor'> &para;</a></span></dt>
<dd><p>This is a convenience procedure for use with a glib main loop, which
will run &rsquo;thunk&rsquo; in the default glib main loop when the timeout
expires.  This procedure calls &rsquo;await&rsquo; and will return the thunk&rsquo;s
return value.  It is intended to be called in a waitable procedure
invoked by a-sync.  The timeout is single shot only - as soon as
&rsquo;thunk&rsquo; has run once and completed, the timeout will be removed from
the event lo