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"timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away

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From: James Youngman <jay <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>, 9102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9102: "timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:00:09 +0100

2011/7/17 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
> 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.

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