On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:18:07PM +0200, Alex Efros wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 06:30:54PM +0200, Alex Efros wrote:
> > Is there exists some standard utility to run other process with timeout?
> > ulimit isn't suitable because it can only limit used CPU time, while I'm
> > speaking about real time.
> 
> I've just discovered `tryto`. Sadly, but looks like there some race
> condition bug in it when tryto used to run some process which exit
> very quickly. I've tried to run `tryto chpst -l`, noticed strange
> results and moved to more simple examples like `tryto true` (see
> details below).

> powerman@home ~/tmp $ for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo "i=$i"; tryto -v -t 2 bash -c 'true'; done
> i=1
> tryto: warning: child "bash" timed out. sending TERM...
> tryto: warning: child "bash" not terminated. sending KILL...
> tryto: fatal: child timed out, giving up.

Yes, it's a race, the patch below should help.  Thanks, Gerrit.