In article <trinity-4cc9f7c8-a188-4131-922b-b4afca596bc9-1406458716813@3capp-mailcom-bs15>, Kamil Rytarowski <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, >Â >The FreeBSD team produced BSD-licensed timeout(1). >Â >Sources http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=268745 >Production https://phabric.freebsd.org/D377 >Â >Is it a good idea to import their result into our base trees? >This tool will make my life easier, my use case is doing tests of a >certain executable, grab results logs from a certain time (like 1-60 >sec) and then repeat N times. I was using subshells, transfering PID and >then using the kill(1) command. >Â >Some utilities contain a timeout option, but it won't necessarily help >if a process hangs. > >My goal is not to find a walk-around using chain of existing tools (so >increasing burden in shell scripts), but make life easier taking this >specialized tool. >Â >With regards.
LGTM... What do others think? christos
