On 11/3/06, Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com> wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Kieran Tully wrote:
>>>>> Is there a standard way to impose a time limit on a child process, and
>>> terminate it when the limit is reached?
>> I guess you could do it with trap?
>>>> #!/bin/sh
>> trap exit 17
>> sleep 900&
>> potentially_long_command
>> Did this on the train this morning:
>http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/timeout
FYI, this program is now part of coreutils: http://url.ie/fa2
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