On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 06:17:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
Michael Stone writes ("Re: Bug#877174: coreutils: timeout should (optionally) emit
an error message when timeout reached"):
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:21:37PM +0100, you wrote:
...
>Do you agree that these ad-hoc runes are a bad thing and it would be
>better to have an official built-in way to do this ?
No, but if upstream likes it that doesn't really matter. :)
I guess you mean you _don't_ like these ad-hoc runes. In which case
maybe you'd like to chime in here...
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21760
No, I do think that adding a timeout flag is silly, and inconsistent
with the implementation on other platforms.
Mike Stone
