From: Avdi Grimm Date: 2008-12-05T03:59:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Robert Dober wrote: > Maybe you should look for the timeout tool on the Web. There is a > somehow old association between timeout and Ara in my brain. timeout is unsafe, for certain values of unsafe. If all you are doing is killing a program though, it should be OK. -- Avdi Home: http://avdi.org Developer Blog: http://avdi.org/devblog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/avdi Journal: http://avdi.livejournal.com