[UFO Chicago] Shell scripting, timeouts

[Crow Leader]

you could nice it so it does not affect anything when it acts stupid.

man nice.

KEN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Bicking" <ianb@colorstudy.com>
To: "Jordan Bettis" <jordanb@hafd.org>
Cc: <ufo@ufo.chicago.il.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] Shell scripting, timeouts


> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 01:35 PM, Jordan Bettis wrote:
> >> But that's kind of lame.  The program won't return as fast as it
> >> usually can, if IO is done through stdin/stdout it would get all 
> >> messed
> >>  up, etc.  Is there an easier/better way?
> >
> > Why not kill it if it uses up too much cpu time?
> 
> Sure, that'd be fine too, but I'm not sure how to do that either.
> 
>    Ian
> 
> 
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