GNU bug report logs - #9101
timeout should use setitimer if available

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: timeout should use setitimer if available
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:28:40 -0700

setitimer has nanosecond resolution, which is better than the
one-second resolution that 'alarm' has.  timeout should use
setitimer if available, to take advantage of this.  On 64-bit
hosts, this has the additional advantage of increasing the
upper bound for timeouts from 2**31 seconds to 2**63 seconds
(about 68 years to about 292 billion years, which should be
long enough for most practical purposes :-).
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 223 days ago.

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