[Skyeye-developer] [PATCH] add timelimit option to skyeye.conf

[Paweł Różański]

On 29/02/2008, Michael. Kang <blackfin.kang at gmail.com> wrote:
> The related patch in attachment can kill skyeye when the time for
>  skyeye running reaches some time limit.I tested it in
>  skyeye-testsuite-2.3/rtems/csb337. If this options is stable and
>  valuable, I will merge it into the coming release.
>
>   You can set the time limit to 20 second in skyeye.conf as the following:
>  #####################################################
>  ksh at ksh:~/cvs/skyeye/testsuite/timelimit_testsuite> cat skyeye.conf
>  cpu:  arm920t
>  mach: at91rm92
>  mem_bank: map=M, type=RW, addr=0x00200000, size=0x00004000
>  mem_bank: map=M, type=R, addr=0x00100000, size=0x00010000
>  mem_bank: map=M, type=RW, addr=0x20000000, size=0x00200000
>  mem_bank: map=M, type=RW, addr=0x20200000, size=0x00500000
>  mem_bank: map=M, type=RW, addr=0x20700000, size=0x00900000
>  mem_bank: map=I, type=RW, addr=0xfffa0000, size=0x00060000
>  timelimit:second=20
>  #####################################
>
Nice, but what is wrong with

!/bin/sh
skyeye &
sleep 20
killall -9 skyeye

or you can also use pidof

My point is - is there any need for code which could be easily done
outside of skyeye ?
-- 
Paweł Różański