Subject: Re: bug#8938: make timeout and CTRL-C

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:41:50 +0100

On 28/06/11 19:19, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I'd like to have an option to 'timeout' so that
> it merely calls alarm(2) and then execs COMMAND.
> This would be simple and fast would avoid the problem
> in question.  This approach has its own issues, but
> when it works it works great, and it'd be a nice option.

The main problem with that is would only
send the signal to the first process, and
any processes it started would keep running.

I think we should be able to figure out something more general.

cheers,
Pádraig.