GNU bug report logs - #8938
make timeout and CTRL-C

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: shay shimony <shayshim <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 8.13

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 8938 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: 8938 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8938: make timeout and CTRL-C
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:42:58 -0600

Alan Curry wrote:
> That sounds reasonable, but then if something is about to be killed by
> timeout, there's reason to believe it's not behaving well at the moment.

Not necessarily.  For example many things depend upon something across
the network.  If the network wire is unplugged then they might never
complete and therefore need a timeout.  But that doesn't mean that
they are not well behaved otherwise.

Bob
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