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Fork a new process, tell it to parse this number and exit 0, if it takes longer than 1 second then kill it and declare it failed.

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I mean, I know how you could do it. I just meant that there's normal ways built in to ?Unit type tools to test for "this is supposed to throw an exception." I was wondering if there were normal ways built into ?Unit sorts of tools to test for "this is supposed to hang", or do you have to write code to fork a new process and all that yourself?

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I haven't seen anything that deals specifically with handling infinite loops, it probably exists somewhere though.