Hey. One more thing on this, since I've just read through: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/timeout-invocation.html#timeout-invocation
That does IMO *not* document the behaviour: --kill-after=duration says: >This option has no effect if timeout’s duration is 0 which disables >the associated timeout. But that's about the timeout from the command itself (i.e. the 1st non- option argument), isn't it? So it means that if I have: timeout --kill-after=10 0 ./command There won't be a KILL after 10s, since the duration itself is 0. There's no word about that --kill-after=0 disabling the KILL in the duration != 0 case as in: timeout --kill-after=0 10 ./command Cheers, Chris.
