From an element, we are executing Automation scripts for certain background tasks. These scripts are executed from a QAction.

A table shows an overview of all tasks and their status (ongoing, scheduled, failed,...). There is currently a timeout configured that updates the record in the table to "Timeout" in case the configured timeout time was surpassed. These tasks are queued so there is only 1 instance of the script running at the same time.

I would like to extend this by verifying from the QAction periodically if the script is actually still running (and didn't for example crash for any reason). This would avoid having to wait unnecessarily for the timeout time.

How can this be done exactly?