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   1 Help on module timeout:
   2 
   3 NAME
   4 #    timeout - Provide functionality to execute command with timeouts.
   5 
   6 FILE
   7 #    utah/utah/timeout.py
   8 
   9 FUNCTIONS
  10 
  11     subprocesstimeout(timeout, *args, **kw)
  12 #        Pass all arguments except timeout to subprocess.Popen and run for timeout seconds.
  13 #        After the timeout is reached, kill all subprocesses and return a UTAHTimeout exception.
  14     
  15     timeout(timeout, command, *args, **kw)
  16 #        Run command with all other arguments for up to timeout seconds, after with a UTAHTimeout exception is returned.