timelimit.netpipes1
Limit execution time of foreground tasks netpipes 4.2
Usage
timelimit.netpipes [-v]
[-nokill]
time
command
args
Overview
timelimit.netpipes is used to limit the amount of foreground wallclock time a process consumes. Once the time limit expires, timelimit.netpipes will kill the process, unless -nokill had been specified.
-v adds some diagnostic messages.
Examples
remote$ timelimit.netpipes 5m faucet 3000 --out cat time-sensitive-info
Credits
Francis Liu <[email protected]> suggested that I modify timelimit so that it doesn't SEGV when invoked with no arguments.
Releases
Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy).