Bug#453290: ITP: timelimit -- Simple utility to limit a process's absolute execution time

[Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>

* Package name    : timelimit
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
* URL             : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/timelimit/
* License         : Two-clause BSD
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Simple utility to limit a process's absolute execution time

The timelimit utility executes a command and terminates the spawned process
after a given time with a given signal.  A "warning" signal is sent first,
then, after a timeout, a "kill" signal, similar to the way init(8) operates
on shutdown.

Actually, I already have a pretty much ready package for the timelimit
utility which may only need minor fixes:
dget -x http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/timelimit/debian/timelimit_1.0-1.dsc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)