From: Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T02:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration

I don't need atomic precision - I need to stop a task that runs 
overnight (being 5 minutes off would not be a problem) so that it's not 
still running when a user gets to their machine.
I did a search on 'real-time computing' but got nothing relevant to me - 
maybe I did the search wrong.. ?

Glen Holcomb wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> 
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@
> trevoke.net> wrote:
> 
>> Any idea how to do that?
>> Say, I don't want a program to run longer than 5 hours.. How would that be
>> implemented?
>>
>> --Aldric
>>
>>
> There are various methods for real time computing.  It really depends on how
> exact you want to be.
>