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On Tuesday 24 July 2007 10:04:12 pm Michael van Elst wrote:
> I'd rather see a 'runsomethingwithtimeout' command than such a
> flag to kill.

There is "deadman" in localsrc/releng/deadman that runs a command
with a timeout and then kills the process if it has not finished.

  deadman numsec command-to-run with-args   ...

This is used on the build clusters to make sure builds don't run too long.

=2D-Phil

p.s.  Yes, this is different than the proposed -t flag to kill/pkill.

=2D-=20
Phil Nelson                       NetBSD: http://www.NetBSD.org
e-mail: phil@cs.wwu.edu           Coda: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu
http://www.cs.wwu.edu/nelson

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