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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2012-01-04 23:33:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2012-01-05 15:12:16 +0000 |
| commit | 512662fb30c448ee6564050cfe45e6b865c1f435 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c3bca6b60770e28cc615a1a3235d6268276f4bb /man/timeout.x | |
| parent | 101a30a2a0f726ad0d4c4541b4e77eab3a1b7aa7 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-512662fb30c448ee6564050cfe45e6b865c1f435.tar.xz | |
tests: avoid a false positive due to overflow on Linux/HPPA
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Verify that the timer doesn't
fire immediately in the problematic range, and avoid overflow
checks in that case.
* man/timeout.x: Mention the possible bug.
Reported by Bruno Haible
Diffstat (limited to 'man/timeout.x')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/timeout.x | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/timeout.x b/man/timeout.x index 19ebed38a..41b429547 100644 --- a/man/timeout.x +++ b/man/timeout.x @@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ timeout \- run a command with a time limit .\" Add any additional description here [SEE ALSO] kill(1) +[BUGS] +Some platforms don't curently support timeouts beyond 2038 |