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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#8938: make timeout and CTRL-C |
| Date: | Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:19:24 -0700 |
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I'd like to have an option to 'timeout' so that it merely calls alarm(2) and then execs COMMAND. This would be simple and fast would avoid the problem in question. This approach has its own issues, but when it works it works great, and it'd be a nice option.
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