I'm very sorry; I believe I may have wasted your time. After further testing, I can only reproduce this using xfce4-terminal (0.6.2) in Fedora 19. Read works fine in gnome-terminal and on tty's, so I hereby respectfully retract my report. Thank you for the work you guys do!
Just to show I'm not (completely) insane, though: ---- [todd@tibs6 ~]$ echo $0 bash [todd@tibs6 ~]$ type -a read read is a shell builtin read is /usr/bin/read read is /bin/read [todd@tibs6 ~]$ time timeout -s 9 5s read -t 1 Killed real 0m5.001s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s [todd@tibs6 ~]$ time read -t 1 asdf real 0m7.904s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s --- On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Geir Hauge <geir.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/12/11 <toddbst...@gmail.com> > >> Description: >> read builtin is not honoring -t argument >> >> Repeat-By: >> Just run 'read -t1' and note that the behavior seems not >> different from simply running 'read' without arguments. >> > > What does ''type read'' say? perhaps you have a function or alias by that > name. I can't reproduce it either. > > -- > Geir Hauge >
