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Process execution & kill
Sorry, I thought it worked but I have realized that it dose not. Your solution only sleeps the process (stops it for 10 seconds), but what I really want is the process to be executed "in the background" and kill it after the mentioned 10 seconds. That is why I told that alarm() might... -
Process execution & kill
Thank you very much, it works!!! I am afraid my search into de Unix C manual has been unuseful, and I would have been lost for years. Had it not been for you... Thanks again!!! -
Process execution & kill
Hello everybody! My problem is that I must execute an executable file. This one may hang - as it is a compiled Pascal program that might contain an infinite loop - , so I must limit its execution time to , let us say, 10 seconds. After that time, the process must be killed. I am almost sure that...
