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[92.236.12.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x124sm12027502wmx.16.2020.07.04.07.29.42 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 04 Jul 2020 07:29:43 -0700 (PDT) To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org From: Jonny Grant Subject: coreutils man page Message-ID: <854dda7b-9ace-9e5f-8472-55909af8e2cd@jguk.org> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 15:29:42 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: permerror client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::32e; envelope-from=jg@jguk.org; helo=mail-wm1-x32e.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, T_SPF_PERMERROR=0.01, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hello Just looking at this man page. I appreciate not the latest version. GNU coreutils 8.32 https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html Could it be clarified that a timeout DURATION of 0 also specifically inhibits the -k, --kill-after=DURATION ? it's implied as "this long after the initial signal was sent", so I'm suggesting to make it clearer. ie $ time timeout -k 2 0 sleep 3 real 0m3.005s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.000s Maybe it could be updated: -k, --kill-after=DURATION also send a KILL signal if COMMAND is still running this long after the initial signal was sent. This never occurs if the initial signal was inhibited by a duration of 0 Cheers, Jonny