Bug#520323: wrong exit code when timeout not reached: tmp FIX

2010-05-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* R0bb [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 wor

Bug#520323: wrong exit code when timeout not reached: tmp FIX

2010-05-07 Thread R0bb
O Hai! 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 productio

Bug#520323: wrong exit code when timeout not reached

2009-03-18 Thread Juha Aatrokoski
Package: timeout Version: 1.11-6.5 Severity: important timeout(1) returns an incorrect exit code (counter to what the man page says) when the child process exits before the specified timeout. E.g. "timeout 10 false" returns 0, which makes checking the exit status useless. This is because the stat