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[Tim Gales]

Jeffrey O. Stevison wrote:
> Is there a way to set a timeout value for a system("ls -l") call?  If  
> the ls command hangs for at least 5 secs I want to term the call and  
> have some return value that indicates the process has termed.

Did you try ' set_time_limit()' ?

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