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TIMELIMIT(1) General Commands Manual 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 back- ground. 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 time- limit 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 MER- CHANTABILITY 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/ February 12, 1998 TIMELIMIT(1)
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