Limit a process's maximum execution time and kill it if exceeded.
Limit a process's absolute execution time
timelimit$ timelimit -t 30 long-running-script.sh$ timelimit -t 300 npm test$ timelimit -t 10 curl http://unresponsive-server.com$ timelimit -t 60 ./potentially-infinite-loop.py$ timelimit -t 120 docker build -t myimage .