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From: Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Is there a way to put a timeout on a function?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:29:49 +0430	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE9z9A21U0Pye29dLAbeyYGW-V1pdHBr6vA+LBTho8wvU9+Jqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I need to limit the execution time of arbitrary zsh functions. Is there a
way to achieve this? I'm ok with just adding a time limit to all the
external commands, but I do not know how to do that. (I don't want to
manually prefix all my commands with the GNU timeout command.)

On a sidenote, I would also like to make the shell stop forcefully (like
when a glob fails) if it doesn't find an external command. I thought maybe
these two problems might have similar solutions. Is prexec viable for them?
Does preexec even work for noninteractive scripts?

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             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-31 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-31 14:59 Rudi C [this message]
2020-09-04 21:14 ` Bart Schaefer

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