Using timeout to Limit the Voting Process

Last time, i talked about exiting the process if it takes too long by checking the time difference since process started (here)

Apparently, it didn't work quite well, and I was still able to see processes being stuck and couldn't exit properly.

Luckily I found out there is a command timeout which works like a charm:

For example:

timeout 5 sleep 100 will exit the process after 5 seconds and sets $? to 124 error code.
but timeout 5 sleep 4 will exit the process after 4 seconds and sets $? to 0 error code.

I have set timeout 10 minutes (600 seconds) for voting process to run.

And so far so good!

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