Re: Registration of the uscheduleruntimelimit command

Uwe Ohse <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:34:47 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.package
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:29:32AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> > Shall i rename it to runtimelimit?
> 
> It could be quite helpful if you told us what 'uscheduleruntimelimit' is
> supposed to do.

uscheduleruntimelimit 10m sh -c 'sleep 1000' 
kills the shell after 10 minutes.

> If it's only to be used with 'uschedule' I would not object naming it
> 'uscheduleruntimelimit'.

it might by useful without uschedule.

Regards, Uwe