From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T05:03:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Force a program to stop if runtime exceeds given duration

As others have noted, using timeout is fraught with peril, and I
myself would not use it for anything I wanted to reliably recover and
keep running.  For just killing a process, though, it may be what
you're looking for.  Although for that matter, you could just do:

  ruby  myprocess.rb &
  echo kill $! | at now + 5 hours
  fg

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