Timeout

[dgutson]

I suggest to add the ability to set a timeout for running tasks, killing them on expiration.

[justanhduc]

Hi @dgutson. Yes it will be a good feature to add. I will come up with an implementation soon.

[dgutson]

Thanks, sometimes tasks hang occupying a slot this turning the whole process slower, not only CPU usage.
If I set task -S 4 but 3 hang overnight, I end up having no parallelism and a night or weekend is lost.
This is a real use case.

[justanhduc]

Yeah I myself did need this feature just a few weeks ago. I needed to restart ffmpeg recording regularly to prevent it from freezing, but at that time I had to make do with some hack in bash script.