I have a launchd job that I've configured to run my unit tests. Every now and then, the unit tests will hang (usually because of some bad code). I know that my test usually only take a couple minutes to run. When they do hang, I usually don't notice it for about an hour, at which point I have to pop open Activity Monitor and forcibly kill my tests manually. I want launchd to do this for me. How can I have launchd automatically kill my job (if it's still running) after a certain amount of time?
I've been looking over the launchd man page, and I've noticed a couple promising keys (like TimeOut and ExitTimeOut), but the wording on the descriptions seems like it's not quite what I'm looking for.
After playing with TimeOut and ExitTimeOut, I've concluded that there doesn't seem to be a way for launchd to kill processes after a certain time interval.
I ended up adding the needed code to my program itself. (My program does more than just unit tests)