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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
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Subject: Dr. Guillotine's cure to runaway procs
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Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 21:59:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.1389
Posted: Tue Aug 19 21:59:24 1986
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Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Quoted from  ["Re: Detecting running processes... this one's portable"], by bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III)...
+---------------
| 
| 	( sleep 120 ; kill -9 $$ ) &
| 	exec $*
| 
| That's it. Settable time parameters, advanced warning before the axe
| falls, and suchlike "are left as exercises for the reader". It did what
| I needed.
+---------------

I've used this trick, too... but I use kill -11.  It's good technique to find
out WHY the program hangs...

++Brandon
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