Limiting the time a program runs in Linux

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Published on 2010-03-05T14:41:17Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 12:21 UTC
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In Linux I would like to run a program but only for a limited time, like 1 second. If the program exceeds this running time I would like to kill the process and show an error message.

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