* R0bb <r0b...@gmail.com> [Fri May 07, 2010 at 02:26:05PM +0200]: > Because it doesn't look like the exit status problem of timeout command > is going to be fixed anytime soon, this bug has been open for > 6 > years??, I patched the source myself using a patch by Drake Diedrich. > I've confirmed the patch works nicely and am currently using it in a > production environment.
Nowadays you shouldn't have to use the timeout package anymore but instead use timeout provided by recent coreutils: % timeout 5 false; echo $? 1 % timeout --version | head -1 timeout (GNU coreutils) 8.4 Dear other forensics members: As I wrote in #531787: | I'm thinking about completely dropping the timeout package with next | upload of the tct package. Any objections? (Cc-ing forensics-devel) The tct package doesn't provide timeout anymore but coreutils 8.5-1 provides the timeout command and entered testing/squeeze, so I tend to request removal (ROM) for the timeout package if there aren't any objections. regards, -mika-
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