[ale] Putting an arbitrary process to sleep

[joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)]

What about sending the process stop 
and cont signals to stop & start it?

Something like:

#!/bin/bash
#usage:  psleep <PID> <SECS>
kill -STOP $1
sleep $2
kill -CONT $1


-Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Joseph A. Knapka [SMTP:jknapka at earthlink.net]
Sent:	Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:30 AM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] Putting an arbitrary process to sleep

Does anyone know of a command or system call that
one can issue to make an arbitrary process sleep
for a given amount of time? "[u]sleep" puts the current
process to sleep, but that's not what I need.

Rationale: I want to write a daemon that will monitor
CPU temp and put certain processes (Seti at home, etc)
to sleep for a while if it gets too high. Maybe
there's already something like this around? Or maybe
there's an easier way to accomplish the task that
someone can suggest?

Thanks,

-- Joe Knapka
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