Problem with trapping SIGALRM

Michael Hudson mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Apr 29 07:26:47 EDT 2001


bnewell at linux.chungkuo.org (Chung Kuo) writes:

> Can anyone say what I've got wrong here or suggest a way to do what
> I am trying to do?

Something like:

/>> def exec_lim():
|..     pid = os.fork()
|..     if pid == 0:
|..         signal.alarm(1)
|..         os.execv("/bin/sh",["sh"])
|..     else:
|..         os.waitpid(pid,os.P_WAIT)
\__ 

?

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  > Look I don't know.  Thankyou everyone for arguing me round in
  > circles.
  No need for thanks, ma'am; that's what we're here for.
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