Subject: bug#9102: "timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away

From: James Youngman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:00:09 +0100

2011/7/17 Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>:
> On 07/17/11 05:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Well my reasoning for having "0" mean don't timeout,
>> was to have an easy way in scripts to specify no timeout
>
> That's a good thing to have, but it could be specified in
> a different way.  One possibility is the '1' (digit 1) option,
> e.g.,  "timeout -1 FOO".  Or if that's too clever, we could
> use some other letter for the option.

I'm not sure that's worked out so well for tail.   But if we are
looking for an argument indicating we don't want a timeout, the
argument "never" is quite clear.

James.