timelimit.netpipes - limit execution time of foreground tasks
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Bugs
Find 'em. Send 'em in. I'll teach them to gnaw on my code!
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
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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.
Description
timelimit.netpipes is used to limit the amount of foreground wallclock time a process consumes. Once the
time limit expires, timelimit.netpipes will kill the process, unless -nokill had been specified.
-v adds some diagnostic messages.
Examples
remote$ timelimit.netpipes 5m faucet 3000 --out cat time-sensitive-info
Name
timelimit.netpipes - limit execution time of foreground tasks
netpipes 4.2
See Also
netpipes(1)
Synopsis
timelimit.netpipes [ -v ] [ -nokill ] timecommandargs
