Bash: wait with timeout

Question

In a Bash script, I would like to do something like:

app1 &
pidApp1=$!
app2 &
pidApp2=$1

timeout 60 wait $pidApp1 $pidApp2
kill -9 $pidApp1 $pidApp2         


        

Answer 1

I wrote a bash function that will wait until PIDs finished or until timeout, that return non zero if timeout exceeded and print all the PIDs not finisheds.

function wait_timeout {
  local limit=${@:1:1}
  local pids=${@:2}
  local count=0
  while true
  do
    local have_to_wait=false
    for pid in ${pids}; do
      if kill -0 ${pid} &>/dev/null; then
        have_to_wait=true
      else
        pids=`echo ${pids} | sed -e "s/${pid}//g"`
      fi
    done
    if ${have_to_wait} && (( $count < $limit )); then
      count=$(( count + 1 ))
      sleep 1
    else
      echo ${pids}
      return 1
    fi
  done   
  return 0
}

To use this is just wait_timeout $timeout $PID1 $PID2 ...