On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 14:50 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> That is a fair point.
Thanks for reconsidering :-)
> If one is using --kill-after you have to
> check for both 124 and 137 anyway to see if it timed out.
> It is useful to know whether the command was forcably killed.
> Using
On 12/10/2021 02:55, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Thinking again about this:
Don't you think one looses quite something if, with --foreground, one
cannot differ (via the exit status) between a timeout that allowed the
program to clean up and one (when KILLing) that didn't?
Even if the KILL
Thinking again about this:
Don't you think one looses quite something if, with --foreground, one
cannot differ (via the exit status) between a timeout that allowed the
program to clean up and one (when KILLing) that didn't?
Even if the KILL happens via killing timeout itself, couldn't it just
On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 22:20 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> For that use case it's probably best to use --preserve-status,
> in which case the 137 from the child getting the SIGKILL
> will be propagated through.
But wouldn't that make me loose the 124, if COMMAND could actually be
SIGTERMed?
On 11/10/2021 22:11, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 22:04 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
+However if the @option{--foreground} option is specified then
+@command{timeout} will not send any signals to its own process,
+and so it will exit with one of the other exit status
On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 22:04 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> +However if the @option{--foreground} option is specified then
> +@command{timeout} will not send any signals to its own process,
> +and so it will exit with one of the other exit status values
> detailed above.
So 137 is only used when
On 11/10/2021 19:01, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Hey.
This time I've also checked the 9.0 documentation (hopefully I wasn't
just too blind).
I noticed that whenever --foreground is used, timeout exits with a 124
status (instead of the documented 128+9) regardless of whether the KILL
is
Hey.
This time I've also checked the 9.0 documentation (hopefully I wasn't
just too blind).
I noticed that whenever --foreround is used, timeout exits with a 124
status (instead of the documented 128+9) regardless of whether the KILL
is sent because of --signal=KILL or --kill-after=n .
