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Running a shell script with a timeout

Posted by: Joe Devietti on: December 28, 2011

In my line of work, deadlock is always close at hand. Running multithreaded programs through prototype compilers, runtime systems, or simulators (and sometimes all three!), there is always the chance that a bug will trigger a deadlock in some layer of the system. There’s nothing like setting off a bunch of experiments, going to sleep, [...]



  • Joe Devietti: I mostly use the AWS web console, which has a 1-click menu option to create an AMI from a running instance. Just right click on the instance and sele
  • Mike Rooney: Awesome, thanks Joe! Could you elaborate on how EBS-backed AMIs supersedes this? Your approach allows you to point to a Volume, so that you get a snap
  • Joe Devietti: Hi Bernd, Thanks for bringing this up! This is indeed a tricky problem. I responded to your thread on the Adobe forums directly, to keep the conv

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