Hi! I got a serious problem. I've got this software that executes a simple C-programs suplied by random internet users, checks it's output etc. and these will sometimes go to endless loop and entire system is in danger when some dumbass submits a program that will write "fuck you" to a file in endless loop. I have a script for the termination of these processes that works quite nicely, but when the C-program prints something to a file it (cause of a reason I don't know) cannot be killed... what can I do...can I limit the CPU-usage for some process or what? (I think that the 99,9% CPU-usage is the reason why the parent can't kill the child.

In reply to killing process...or limiting it's cpu time by dez

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