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Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de> wrote:
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> I'd rather see a 'runsomethingwithtimeout' command than such a
> flag to kill.

Well, that solves a different problem, though.  My specific problem is
simple:  I want to kill a given process regardless of how it was started
-- whether or not via 'runsomethingwithtimeout' or by first setting a
ulimit or ... -- if it has been running longer than N seconds.

But it seems there's consensus this ought to be done in pkill(1) (if at
all) rather than kill(1).

I'll come up with a patch for pkill(1), then. :-)

-Jan

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