timing child processes

[MFHorn]

>From article <6250 at homxc.ATT.COM>, by vas1 at homxc.ATT.COM (S.PUTCHA):
> Is there an easy way to kill a process after it uses up a certain
> amount of CPU time (Note: NOT REAL time)?

You could use the setrlimit system call.  Setrlimit is passed a pointer
to an 'rlimit' struct as defined in /usr/include/sys/resource.h .  When
the process uses whatever CPU time you specify, it gets sent a SIGXCPU.

This applies to BSD.  I'm not sure about SysV.

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