Time limited threads?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello All,

Is there a way I can limit a threads execution time? (and then resume it
later?)

Background:
We're giving an exercise in scheduling.
I'd like to give the students a service that runs one thread for a given
time quota.
Then they will write the scheduler.

Thanks
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