Re: Registration of the uscheduleruntimelimit command

Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:40:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.package
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:26:18PM -0500):
> 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.

Another 2 cent; use:

/package/admin/uschedule/cmd/runtimelimit

It's only 20 characters longer and needs no registration.

-- 
Stefan