timelimit — limit a process's absolute execution time

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Description

timelimit executes a command and terminates the spawned process after a given time with a given signal. A “warning” signal is sent first, then, after a timeout, a “kill” signal, similar to the way init(8) operates on shutdown.

Downloading timelimit

The timelimit homepage is here.

The latest release is timelimit-1.1:

• timelimit-1.1.tar.gz — the source archive (with a PGP signature);

Older releases:

• timelimit-1.0

  • timelimit-1.0.tar.gz — the source archive (with a PGP signature);
  • a Debian Linux package:
    • timelimit-1.0-1 — dsc, amd64.changes, amd64.deb
  • a FreeBSD port: timelimit-1.0-fbsd-port.shar (with a PGP signature)

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to (in no particular order):

• Karsten W Rohrbach for both the initial push that started this project going, and all the contributions of ideas and code that still keeps it alive;
• Bram Moolenaar and Sven Guckes for VIM (enough said);
• the FreeBSD Project for providing me with a robust OS to play with stuff on;
• …and everybody else who feel they deserve gratitude (and this probably won't be the first time I've forgotten to express gratitude, either).

Description | Download | Acknowledgements