[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#9102: "timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#9102: "timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:08:14 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Thunderbird/3.1.11 |
On 07/17/11 05:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Well my reasoning for having "0" mean don't timeout,
> was to have an easy way in scripts to specify no timeout
That's a good thing to have, but it could be specified in
a different way. One possibility is the '1' (digit 1) option,
e.g., "timeout -1 FOO". Or if that's too clever, we could
use some other letter for the option.
> If we do I guess `timeout` should immediately exit(124).
> This change in behavior would need a mention in NEWS anyway.
Yes, that'd make sense.