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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-07-08 13:31:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-07-08 13:54:08 +0100 |
| commit | 4d90d29899917ec16ea5806a0456501e5e948960 (patch) | |
| tree | 3af0b546d5b32d0fe761037546866ad9ff9a4621 /NEWS | |
| parent | 4496c94091f8a6bc95fc1c0868eba632fae99ba3 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4d90d29899917ec16ea5806a0456501e5e948960.tar.xz | |
timeout: support cascaded timeouts
* src/timeout.c (cleanup): Send signals directly to the child
in case it has started its own process group (like a cascaded
timeout command would for example).
* test/misc/timeout-group: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- split --number l/... no longer creates extraneous files in certain cases. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8] + timeout now sends signals to commands that create their own process group. + [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0] + ** Changes in behavior chmod, chown and chgrp now output the original attributes in messages, |