[Feature Request] Process Timeout

[MCStreetguy]

I am currently using this cool library for a program of mine to execute shell commands in the background. But now I stumbled across a case where I miss a function.
A command that is executed hangs in case of an error instead of terminating itself. It would be very handy if you could also set a timeout for a command after which the process is automatically terminated if it is still running.

Do you think such a feature is realizable? And if not, can you think of a workaround to work around the problem?

Thank you in advance and best regards, Max.

[kamermans]

A timeout might be possible by using non-blocking streams and process termination: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5309900/php-process-execution-timeout, but it probably wouldn't be very reliable since there are still places it could hang.

It's probably best to use an external utility like timeout: https://stackpointer.io/unix/unix-linux-run-command-with-timeout/500/