Dear Wizards,
Do you know of a program that will kill a process
after a pre-determined amount of time?
We have a paging process written in Focus that when pulled
up on a terminal, HITMAN will not kill the session
because it sees the Focus program is active. I would
like to have a program that basically starts a timer
when it sees the pager process become active and then
kill the process after a certain amount of time.
Enough info! Thanks!!
Despite the name, I gather this is not an excessive page faulting problem. If
it is then perhaps increasing the working set size and/or physical memory is in
order.
I also gather that simply training the users to exit the "pager/paging"
application is not sufficent.
The problem is if you do figure out how to kill a process running the
application after a fixed amount of time, you might be doing the wrong thing,
inasmuchas the user would have to restart.
The application must be fooling HITMAN somehow. The best way to determine if
there's a user still making use of the application is to time input.
Whereas the following loop should not defeat HITMAN;
$ loop:
$ show time
$ wait 0:1
$ goto loop
the following could;
$ loop:
$ set terminal /inquire
$ wait 0:1
$ goto loop
The difference is the set terminal /inquire command causes the terminal (or
emulator) to send a sequence of bytes which look a whole lot like user
keystrokes. If HITMAN is fooled by the first loop then the application might be
ticking a clock on the display.
