[AURORA-169] Add process timeout support to Thermos

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Thermos
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brian Wickman
• Created: 03/Feb/14 23:28
• Updated: 03/Feb/14 23:28

Description

Add ability for a thermos Process to have a maximum lifetime.

Use cases:

• start a staging job that you want to committ seppuku after a predetermined interval
• cap certain tasks at a maximum time else mark as failure (e.g. "fetch from HDFS should never take longer than 5 minutes")