On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:08:02AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > Nathan, > > If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch > > the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do > > the same thing in C :)
This unfortunately relies on good coding practices by the user, which you can't depend on. > The problem is that I have an 'untrusted' user base I everything > has to be implemented by the parent process or by the system itself. I > have no way of making the users behave themselves (in fact, they misbehave > for the fun of it) with good cgi programming. Use cgiwrap. You can configure exactly how much cpu they get to use. I used it on a solaris machine that we were teaching a course on digital media on, and magically the load problems disappeared. jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.
