I am running many scripts to analyze time, memory, etc., the problem is some hang for a long time (2-3 minutes) and in that case, I just want to "skip" them and not let them finish. The problem is I can not figure out how to force a timeout on the scripts. I thought by adding in a timer in a try/catch block that throws an error after 30 seconds, it could be a workaround, but it turns out the timer will display an error on the console, but does nothing at all to signal to the try catch block that an error occured.
I had two other ideas, but I am not sure exactly how they would work. 1) Calling a batch file that ran the script, but could also kill it after 30 seconds, my one big concern would be getting all the test results back into the over-arching program running the tests, but I think that can still be done relatively easily. 2) This one is a little more crazy and almost positive it would not work the way I am thinking about it, but somehow modifying or deleting the script it was running after 30 seconds and then replacing it with a copy if it did delete or modify it to stop.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks!
