[Haskell-cafe] setResourceLimit

I have a long-lived multithreaded server process that needs to execute programs and interact with them via Handles. The programs could misbehave, like loop or hang, so I need to limit the real and CPU time they can take. I guess System.Posix.Resource.setResourceLimit sets limits on the current process, so I can't use it in the server process. Is it a good approach to write some utility program for the server to call that does setResourceLimit and executes the programs that could misbehave?