On 07/16/11 15:08, Alan Curry wrote: > What's the difference between running a command with a 0 second timeout > and not running the command at all? It could be killed before it even gets > scheduled.
Yes, exactly. "timeout 0 FOO" should be the limit case for timeout 1 FOO timeout 0.1 FOO timeout 0.01 FOO timeout 0.001 FOO That is, its behavior shouldn't diverge markedly from that of "timeout 1e-300 FOO".
