From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arijit
Das
Sent: 13 March 2006 13:30
To: [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: Timeing Out a Command - how to?
> Is there any way to time out a unix command?
>
> Its something like this... I want my PerlPgm <might_hang.pl> to be
killed by the shell (sh/bash/csh) if my
> PerlPgm fails to finish off by 300 elapsed seconds.
>
> Something like
>
> <timeout_shell_command> -timeout 300 might_hang.pl
>
> This should execute might_hang.pl normally but if might_hang.pl fails
to finish off by 300 elapsed secs, it
> should kill the might_hang.pl process.
>
> I know that this can be achieved from inside might_hang.pl using
alarms, but I needed to achieve that through a > bourne shell i.e. the
invoker of the Perl program (might_hang.pl).
>
> Any thoughts about how this can be achieved...?
You seem to already know the easiest way to do this ('perldoc -f
alarm'), but you don't say why don't want to (or perhaps can't) use this
method. If you did it might make it easier to answer your question.
However, some variation on the following should do the trick.
perl might_hang.pl
pid=$!
sleep 300
kill $pid
The end result is very similar to using alarm, except that you can
decide what signal to send.
HTH
--
Brian Raven
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