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+#============================================================================ 
+#Name        : timeout_launcher.py 
+#Part of     : Helium 
+
+#Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+#All rights reserved.
+#This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+#under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+#which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+#at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+#Initial Contributors:
+#Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+#Contributors:
+#
+#Description:
+#===============================================================================
+
+""" Application launcher supporting timeout. """
+import os
+import sys
+import re
+import subprocess
+import logging
+import time
+
+_logger = logging.getLogger('timeout_launcher')
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+
+
+# Platform
+windows = False
+if sys.platform == "win32":
+    import win32process
+    import win32con
+    import win32api
+    windows = True
+
+def main():
+    cmdarg = False
+    cmdline = []
+    timeout = None
+    
+    for arg in sys.argv:
+        res = re.match("^--timeout=(\d+)$", arg)
+        if not cmdarg and res is not None:
+            timeout = int(res.group(1))
+            _logger.debug("Set timeout to %s" % timeout)
+        elif not cmdarg and arg == '--':
+            _logger.debug("Parsing command start")
+            cmdarg = True
+        elif cmdarg:
+            _logger.debug("Adding arg: %s" % arg)
+            cmdline.append(arg)
+    
+    if len(cmdline) == 0:
+        print "Empty command line."
+        print "e.g: timeout_launcher.py --timeout=1 -- cmd /c sleep 10"
+        sys.exit(-1)
+    else:
+        _logger.debug("Start command")
+        if timeout != None:
+            finish = time.time() + timeout
+            timedout = False
+            shell = True
+            if windows:
+                shell = False
+            p = subprocess.Popen(' '.join(cmdline), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=shell)
+            while (p.poll() == None):
+                if time.time() > finish:
+                    timedout = True
+                    break
+                time.sleep(1)
+            if timedout:
+                print "ERROR: Application has timed out (timeout=%s)." % timeout
+                if windows:
+                    try:
+                        print "ERROR: Trying to kill the process..."
+                        handle = win32api.OpenProcess(True, win32con.PROCESS_TERMINATE, p.pid)
+                        win32process.TerminateProcess(handle, -1)
+                        print "ERROR: Process killed..."
+                    except Exception, exc:
+                        print "ERROR: %s" % exc
+                else:
+                    # pylint: disable-msg=E1101
+                    os.kill(p.pid, 9)
+                print "ERROR: exiting..."
+                raise Exception("Timeout exception.")
+            else:
+                print p.communicate()[0]
+                sys.exit(p.returncode)
+        else:
+            p = subprocess.Popen(' '.join(cmdline), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)
+            print p.communicate()[0]
+            sys.exit(p.returncode)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
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