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.\" $Id: timelimit.html,v 1.3 1998/10/28 16:07:57 thoth Exp $
.\" Copyright 1997-98 by Robert Forsman
.TH  TIMELIMIT 1 "February 12, 1998"

.SH 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 background.

netpipes 4.2

.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBtimelimit\fP
[ \fB\-v\fP ]
[ \fB\-nokill\fP ]
\fItime\fP
\fIcommand args\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBtimelimit\fP is used to limit the amount of foreground wallclock
time a process consumes.  Once the time limit expires \fBtimelimit\fP
will kill the process unless \fB\-nokill\fP is specified.

\fB\-v\fP adds some diagnostic messages.

.SH EXAMPLES

.nf timelimit 5m faucet 3000 \-\-out cat time\-sensitive\-info
.fi

.SH SEE ALSO
netpipes (1)

.SH BUGS

Find 'em.  Send 'em in.  I'll teach them to gnaw on my code!

.SH 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.

.SH 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
MERCHANTABILITY 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.

.SH AUTHOR
Robert Forsman
 thoth@purplefrog.com
 Purple Frog Software
 http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/