On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote:
> shimi <linux...@shimi.net> writes: > > > There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for > > too long is 'a fault', which you might use. > > I am not sure - the typical use case of ftsh is to keep trying for so > many times or for such and such time interval if your task keeps > failing. I understood the OP requirements as to be able to kill a > perfectly running application after a specified time interval. I am > not sure ftsh handles this case. > I know what the typical use is, but... if you define "try one attempt" and "a failure is when the task is running more than 4 hours", essentially you build something that runs whatever you want, and assumes a failure after 4 hours, cleans it up gracefully, and that's it, no? -- Shimi
