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bug#21264: timeout 0 behaviour
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#21264: timeout 0 behaviour |
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Date: |
Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:45:33 +0100 |
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On 15/08/15 09:22, Kuchta, Tomasz wrote:
> Dear Coreutils developers,
>
> I’ve noticed that the timeout tool does not terminate the program being run,
> if the specified timeout is 0.
> I was wondering whether that’s an expected behaviour.
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> I’ve tried it under Ubuntu 14.04, with timeout version 9.21.
> The test command I used was:
> timeout 0 find / -type f
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> Thank you,
> Tomek
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http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/timeout states that
"A duration of 0 disables the associated timeout."
thanks,
Pádraig.