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it fully passes the GNU timeout regression tests, it is written in a mostly portable way (only signal parsing is relying on non portable structures) Phabric: D377
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2.3 KiB
Groff
71 lines
2.3 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd July 16, 2014
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.Dt TIMEOUT 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm timeout
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.Nd run a command with a time limit
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl -signal Ar sig | Fl s Ar sig
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.Op Fl -preserve-status
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.Op Fl -kill-after Ar time | Fl k Ar time
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.Op Fl -foreground
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.Ao Ar duration Ac
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.Ao Ar command Ac
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.Ao Ar args ... Ac
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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starts the
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.Ar command
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with its
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.Ar args
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and kills if it is still runs after
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.Ar duration .
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.Bl -tag -width "-k time, --kill-after time"
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.It Fl -preserve-status
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Always exist with the same status as
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.Ar command
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even if it times out.
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.It Fl -foreground
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Do not propagate timeout to the
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.Ar command
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children.
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.It Fl s Ar sig , Fl -signal Ar sig
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Speficy the signal to send on timeout by default
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.Ar SIGTERM .
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.It Fl k Ar time , Fl -kill-after Ar time
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Send a second kill if the
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.Ar command
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is still running after
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.Ar time
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seconds after the first signal was sent
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr signal 3 ,
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.Xr kill 1
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