Processes with timeout

[Mark Borgerding]

Markus Franz wrote:
> How can I make it sure that every child-process terminates after x senconds
> (wether it has finished or not)?
> I don't know how to force a child-process to kill itself after x seconds. I
> also don't know how to force a main process (parent) to kill a child-process
> after x seconds.

signal.alarm(x)



# after x seconds, a SIGALRM signal will be sent to the current process 
# (even if the contents of the process changes via exec* )



-- Mark Borgerding