TIMELIMIT(1)

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/