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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'timeout'


puts 'starting process'
pid = Process.spawn('sleep 20')
begin
  Timeout.timeout(5) do
    puts 'waiting for the process to end'
    Process.wait(pid)
    puts 'process finished in time'
  end
rescue Timeout::Error
  puts 'process not finished in time, killing it'
  Process.kill('TERM', pid)
end