So I says:
> 6) Some kind of 'rlimit' before/after benchmark or example,
> the kind that anyone can test, (not system critical),
> would be good.
Just came up with:
# compress a endless string of "y", send it to '/dev/null'
# limit it to 5 seconds, show how long 'bash' thinks it took,
# and print the exit code.
% time yes | rlimit -t 5 -- gzip > /dev/null ; echo $?
Killed
real 0m12.783s
user 0m11.161s
sys 0m1.464s
137
HTH...
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