GNU bug report logs - #9102
"timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away

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Package: coreutils;

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

Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: "timeout 0 FOO" should timeout right away
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:34:02 -0700

"sleep 0" sleeps for zero seconds, and "timeout 0 FOO"
should timeout in zero seconds as well.  Currently,
it doesn't; it times out in an infinite number of seconds.
I see why, from the internals (alarm (0) is a special
call intended to cancel alarms).  However, 'timeout' shouldn't
be exposing those internals to users; it should behave like
'sleep' does, as that's more consistent.
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