Imported from ../bash-2.02.tar.gz.

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+#Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell
+#From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
+#Subject: Re: timeout -t <sec> <unix command> (Re: How to give rsh a shorter timeout?)
+#Message-ID: <EoBxrs.223@root.co.uk>
+#Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:23:52 GMT
+
+#
+# Conversion to bash v2 syntax done by Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu
+# UNTESTED
+#
+
+prog=${0##*/}
+usage="usage: $prog [-signal] [timeout] [:interval] [+delay] [--] <command>"
+
+SIG=-TERM	# default signal sent to the process when the timer expires
+timeout=60	# default timeout
+interval=15	# default interval between checks if the process is still alive
+delay=2		# default delay between posting the given signal and
+		# destroying the process (kill -KILL)
+
+while :
+do
+	case $1 in
+	--)	shift; break ;;
+	-*)	SIG=$1 ;;
+	[0-9]*)	timeout=$1 ;;
+	:*)	EXPR='..\(.*\)' ; interval=`expr x"$1" : "$EXPR"` ;;
+	+*)	EXPR='..\(.*\)' ; delay=`expr x"$1" : "$EXPR"` ;;
+	*)	break ;;
+	esac
+	shift
+done
+
+case $# in
+0)	echo "$prog: $usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
+esac
+
+(
+	for t in $timeout $delay
+	do
+		while (( $t > $interval ))
+		do
+			sleep $interval
+			kill -0 $$ || exit
+			t=$(( $t - $interval ))
+		done
+		sleep $t
+		kill $SIG $$ && kill -0 $$ || exit
+		SIG=-KILL
+	done
+) 2> /dev/null &
+
+exec "$@"