[RESEND] Is there a way to put a timeout on a function?

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From: Aryn Starr <whereislelouch@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Subject: [RESEND] Is there a way to put a timeout on a function?

Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:45:27 +0430

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I need to limit the execution time of arbitrary zsh functions. Is there a way to achieve this? I'm ok with just adding a time limit to all the external commands, but I do not know how to do that. (I don't want to manually prefix all my commands with the GNU timeout command.)

On a sidenote, I would also like to make the shell stop forcefully (like when a glob fails) if it doesn't find an external command. I thought maybe these two problems might have similar solutions. Is prexec viable for them? Does preexec even work for noninteractive scripts?

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