You know what would REALLY be scary..... a program like this: # timed 15 read -p "My prompt: " Execute "read -p ..." and abort it if it doesn't finish in 15 secs. # timed 20 cp /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2 # --think REALLY BIG files Execute "cp ...." and abort if the process takes over 20 secs. What do you think? Is this even possible? I suppose it would be, but a C program would be easier to do this in, right? Would this be useful? -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Linux, Unixware [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
