timing child processes

S.PUTCHA vas1 at homxc.ATT.COM
Tue Apr 11 01:07:18 AEST 1989


In article <6250 at homxc.ATT.COM>, vas1 at homxc.ATT.COM (S.PUTCHA) writes:
> Is there an easy way to kill a process after it uses up a certain
> amount of CPU time (Note: NOT REAL time)? The times() system command
> does return CPU times of child processes. Is there a way to monitor
> this time ? The problem with time is that it doesnt give you the
> CPU process time unless you wait() on it.
> 
> Thanks !

I failed to mention that I am running sys V. Sorry about that.    
Vas Putcha



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