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Re: [Texmacs-dev] Problem with Ghostscript
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David Allouche |
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Re: [Texmacs-dev] Problem with Ghostscript |
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Fri, 2 May 2003 19:10:20 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.3i |
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:00:32PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:33:26AM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
>
> > Does someone know whether there exist a command
> > which executes an other command for a certain time.
> > In other words, either the command terminates within
> > the given time, or it does not and we kill it.
>
> At least on debian machines there is timeout :
I do not think that would be right.
Ghostscript takes an awful amount of time to render some images,
especially big raster images. It would be difficult to define a fixed
value for "too long" which accounts for different processor speeds and
occasionnal lengthy but time-bounded calculations.
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-- DDAA
Re: [Texmacs-dev] Problem with Ghostscript, Karl M. Hegbloom, 2003/05/02
Re: [Texmacs-dev] Problem with Ghostscript, Ralf Treinen, 2003/05/02
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