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timeout 0 behaviour

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Kuchta, Tomasz" <t.kuchta12 <at> imperial.ac.uk>

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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From: "Kuchta, Tomasz" <t.kuchta12 <at> imperial.ac.uk>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: timeout 0 behaviour
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:22:06 +0000

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.

I’ve tried it under Ubuntu 14.04, with timeout version 9.21.
The test command I used was:
timeout 0 find / type -f

Thank you,
Tomek
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From: "Kuchta, Tomasz" <t.kuchta12 <at> imperial.ac.uk>
To: "21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: update
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:27:58 +0000

Sorry, the test command was:
timeout 0 find / -type f
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Message #11 received at 21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: "Kuchta, Tomasz" <t.kuchta12 <at> imperial.ac.uk>, 21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21264: timeout 0 behaviour
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:45:33 +0100

tag 21264 notabug
close 21264
stop

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.
> 
> I’ve tried it under Ubuntu 14.04, with timeout version 9.21.
> The test command I used was:
> timeout 0 find / -type f
> 
> Thank you,
> Tomek
> 

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/timeout states that

"A duration of 0 disables the associated timeout."

thanks,
Pádraig.
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Message #14 received at 21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Kuchta, Tomasz" <t.kuchta12 <at> imperial.ac.uk>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 "21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21264: timeout 0 behaviour
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 16:52:33 +0000

Oh, yes - my bad. I’ve checked only on the linux man page.
Thank you,

Tomek

> On 15 Aug 2015, at 14:45, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> wrote:
> 
> tag 21264 notabug
> close 21264
> stop
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> I’ve tried it under Ubuntu 14.04, with timeout version 9.21.
>> The test command I used was:
>> timeout 0 find / -type f
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Tomek
>> 
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/timeout states that
> 
> "A duration of 0 disables the associated timeout."
> 
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:53:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 21264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and "Kuchta, Tomasz" <t.kuchta12 <at> imperial.ac.uk> Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:53:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:24:09 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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