On 16/07/15 05:56 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
for i in $(seq 20); do time gtimeout 2.34e+5d sleep inf; done

gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.015 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.009 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total
gtimeout 2.34e+5d gsleep inf  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.010 total

Sorry, I didn't make that clear, when the command works (like it does mostly on 64-bit on 64-bit systems, as I poorly conveyed in the last post) it never returns and it returns "immediately" on the failure, which (as the above shows) was 20 out of 20 test cases.

> This coredump occurs even on 64-bit systems where the gtimeout command
> waits for the sleep command (to finish - which it won't).

Sorry for the confusion,

Peter



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