On 4/21/23 11:34 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
My interest here isn't "Can I accomplish this task with Bash?" but quite
literally, Can I make this a *feature* of Bash so I don't have to set up
the mechanics? (I already know of a couple of other ways to do it with
Bash.)
My point is that if it's
Chet Ramey writes:
> On 4/20/23 1:53 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
>> How difficult would it be to add an optional timeout argument to the
>> "wait" builtin?
>
> Try a variant of this.
> ...
My interest here isn't "Can I accomplish this task with Bash?" but quite
literally, Can I make this a
On 4/20/23 1:53 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
How difficult would it be to add an optional timeout argument to the
"wait" builtin?
Try a variant of this.
trap 'echo timeout!' USR1 # choose your fighter
wait_with_timeout()
{
pid=$1
timeout=$2
{ sleep $timeout && kill
