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.
-- LNR & Michael M Mason, cam.misc
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