man timelimit (Commandes) - spawn a subprocess and if the child does not finish within the time limit either kill it, or exit, leaving the child in the background.
NAME
timelimit - spawn a subprocess and if the child does not finish within the time limit either kill it, or exit, leaving the child in the background.
netpipes 4.2
SYNOPSIS
timelimit [ -v ] [ -nokill ] time command args
DESCRIPTION
timelimit is used to limit the amount of foreground wallclock time a process consumes. Once the time limit expires timelimit will kill the process unless -nokill is specified.
-v adds some diagnostic messages.
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
netpipes (1)
BUGS
Find 'em. Send 'em in. I'll teach them to gnaw on my code!
CREDITS
Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au> suggested that I modify timelimit so that it doesn't SEGV when invoked with no arguments.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997-1998 Robert Forsman
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
AUTHOR
Robert Forsman thoth@purplefrog.com Purple Frog Software http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/