>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@ovn.org]
>Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 5:24 PM
>To: Bodireddy, Bhanuprakash <bhanuprakash.bodire...@intel.com>
>Cc: nickcooper-zhangtonghao <nickcooper-zhangtong...@opencloud.tech>;
>dev@openvswitch.org
>Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ovs-appctl: Fix potential crash with
>timeout argument
>
>On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 03:29:11PM +0000, Bodireddy, Bhanuprakash wrote:
>> >It seems to me that it’s unnecessary to change the codes. If the
>> >“timeout” is empty, the “atoi” function will convert it to 0,
>>
>> Got a signal when I passed empty timeout accidentally during my test runs
>and so I sent out this patch. Don’t you see this issue on your target?
>> # ovs-appctl --timeout= dpif-netdev/pmd-stats-show
>> 2016-08-08T15:20:01Z|00001|fatal_signal|WARN|terminating with signal
>> 14 (Alarm clock) Alarm clock
>
>The signal is the timeout expiring!  SIGALRM seems like a reasonable way to
>terminate a program that is timing out.  Not a bug.

Thanks Ben for the clarification.
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