Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:47:07 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: How to set a timeout for a process Message-ID: <AANLkTikn1k1cE=etraHb%2BGSt1-U0pdrXTX6M9eiUgZYY@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=NJA4by3Pnv7f=KOh-R%2BSTq_aLiuS9K4FFO0_7@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=NJA4by3Pnv7f=KOh-R%2BSTq_aLiuS9K4FFO0_7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a script that may or not hang (the reasons why it hangs are > unimportant here) and need to call it from an other script and need to > say if it hangs to give up after X seconds and just continue the > script (no harm done if it fails) or in addition to my previous answer use /usr/ports/sysutils/timelimit -- Eitan Adler
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