debian man page for timed-process

TIMED-PROCESS(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 TIMED-PROCESS(1p)

NAME
       timed-process - Run background process for limited amount of time

SYNOPSIS
	   timed-process [-e exit_status] timeout command [<arg> [<arg> ...]]

DESCRIPTION
       This script runs command for a specified amount of time and if it doesn't finish, it kills the process.	If command runs and exits before
       the given timeout, timed-process returns the exit value of command.  If command did not exit before timeout seconds, then timed-process
       will kill the process and returns an exit value of 255, unless the -e command line option is set, which instructs timed-process to return a
       different exit value.  This allows the user of timed-process to determine if the process ended normally or was killed.

perl v5.10.0							    2009-07-06							 TIMED-PROCESS(1p)