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TIMELIMIT(1)						      General Commands Manual						      TIMELIMIT(1)

NAME
       timelimit.netpipes - limit execution time of foreground tasks

       netpipes 4.2

SYNOPSIS
       timelimit.netpipes [ -v ] [ -nokill ] time command args

DESCRIPTION
       timelimit.netpipes  is  used  to  limit	the  amount  of  foreground wallclock time a process consumes.	Once the time limit expires, time-
       limit.netpipes will kill the process, unless -nokill had been specified.

       -v adds some diagnostic messages.

EXAMPLES
       remote$	timelimit.netpipes 5m faucet 3000 --out cat time-sensitive-info

SEE ALSO
       netpipes(1)

BUGS
       Find 'em.  Send 'em in.	I'll teach them to gnaw on my code!

CREDITS
       Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au> suggested that I modify timelimit so that it doesn't SEGV when invoked with no arguments.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1997-1998 Robert Forsman

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as  published	by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed  in  the	hope  that  it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free  Software  Foundation,
       Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

AUTHOR
       Robert Forsman
	thoth@purplefrog.com
	Purple Frog Software
	http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/

								 February 12, 1998						      TIMELIMIT(1)