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make timeout and CTRL-C

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 8938 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8938: make timeout and CTRL-C
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.

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