Inpatience
Timebox process, useful for processes which sometimes fail silently and then hang forever..
install
npm install -g inpatience
run
inpatience -wait 2 -process process_which_might_hang additional_args -- --moar --options
Waits -wait
seconds, if nothing has been written to stdout or stderr in that
time, kills the process. Each time something is written to stdout or stderr,
resets the timer.