Subject: bug#32521: coreutils timeout in a bash script not transparent for the application

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:58:25 -0700

Rafal Jankowski wrote:
> my understanding timeout should be as transparent
> as possible for the application that is being executed

Sure, but no matter what 'timeout' does, it cannot possibly be transparent to 
every application, because that application might be using the same mechanism 
that 'timeout' is using. Until we know more about exactly what the application 
is up to, it's not clear that this is a bug in 'timeout'.