Re: Registration of the uscheduleruntimelimit command

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:34:47PM +0000, Uwe Ohse wrote:
> 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.

How about prepending all commands with a common abbreviation of the
package name:

usc_runtimelimit

Saves 4 characters, but still avoids name collisions.

Mate
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