This is a discussion on A way to time-limit a program in C - Unix ; Is there a simple way to limit the amount of time that a program (vfork()+execvp()) can run? i.e., can you do this: unsigned timeout; main thread: ... pthread_create(.., p1, ...) pthread_create(..., p2, ...) pthread_join(p1) pthread_join(p2) p1: fd = open("foo", O_RDONLY) ...
Is there a simple way to limit the amount of time that a program
(vfork()+execvp()) can run?
i.e., can you do this:
unsigned timeout;
main thread:
...
pthread_create(.., p1, ...)
pthread_create(..., p2, ...)
pthread_join(p1)
pthread_join(p2)
p1:
fd = open("foo", O_RDONLY)
dup2(fd, 1)
execvp("bar", ...)
p2:
time_t time_ = time
if (time - _time >= timeout)
pthread_kill(p1, 9)
