timeout applet, do you like?

[Roberto A. Foglietta]

Hi to all,

  I have devolped a small C-program that do this job:

  USAGE: timeout [-f exit_status_file] [-v] <timeout> "command line"

  setup an alarm signal, run "command line" with fork/execve, if alarm 
set off will kill the "command line" process and return error otherwise 
it return exit status of it.
  flag -v is for verbosity
  flag -f is to save the exit status in a file (good for background 
process which will be checked in the future).

  May be some others have been done the same, but I did not find 
anything like it. If you think it could be usefull I will write a 
patch/code for busybox to have it. Let me know.

  I do not have finished to test "timeout" yet, so patch will not sent 
very soon, in the case.

  Cheers,
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Roberto A. Foglietta
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