Hello,
The FreeBSD team produced BSD-licensed timeout(1).
Sources http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=268745
Production https://phabric.freebsd.org/D377
Is it a good idea to import their result into our base trees?
This tool will make my life easier, my use case is doing tests of a certain executable, grab results logs from a certain time (like 1-60 sec) and then repeat N times. I was using subshells, transfering PID and then using the kill(1) command.
Some utilities contain a timeout option, but it won't necessarily help if a process hangs.
My goal is not to find a walk-around using chain of existing tools (so increasing burden in shell scripts), but make life easier taking this specialized tool.
With regards.
The FreeBSD team produced BSD-licensed timeout(1).
Sources http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=268745
Production https://phabric.freebsd.org/D377
Is it a good idea to import their result into our base trees?
This tool will make my life easier, my use case is doing tests of a certain executable, grab results logs from a certain time (like 1-60 sec) and then repeat N times. I was using subshells, transfering PID and then using the kill(1) command.
Some utilities contain a timeout option, but it won't necessarily help if a process hangs.
My goal is not to find a walk-around using chain of existing tools (so increasing burden in shell scripts), but make life easier taking this specialized tool.
With regards.