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.