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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-03-15 23:03:30 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-03-16 23:10:15 +0000
commitc403c31e8806b732e1164ef4a206b0eab71bca95 (patch)
treec593bccff037db3c5f332810aec7dfbc33a30683 /tests/misc/timeout-parameters
parent4edb86215deec3ad7478eb4eca54d563bd3b95c0 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-c403c31e8806b732e1164ef4a206b0eab71bca95.tar.xz
timeout: add the --kill-after option
Based on a report from Kim Hansen who wanted to send a KILL signal to the monitored command when `timeout` itself received a termination signal. Rather than changing such a signal into a KILL, we provide the more general mechanism of sending the KILL after the specified grace period. * src/timeout.c (cleanup): If a non zero kill delay is specified, (re)set the alarm to that delay, after which a KILL signal will be sent to the process group. (usage): Mention the new option. Separate the description of DURATION since it's now specified in 2 places. Clarify that the duration is an integer. (parse_duration): A new function refactored from main(), since this logic is now called for two parameters. (main): Parse the -k option. * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Describe the new --kill-after option and use @display rather than @table to show the duration suffixes. Clarify that a duration of 0 disables the associated timeout. * tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Check invalid --kill-after. * tests/misc/timeout: Check a valid --kill-after works. * NEWS: Mention the new feature.
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diff --git a/tests/misc/timeout-parameters b/tests/misc/timeout-parameters
index a55b2d283..610813103 100755
--- a/tests/misc/timeout-parameters
+++ b/tests/misc/timeout-parameters
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ test $? = 125 || fail=1
timeout invalid sleep 0
test $? = 125 || fail=1
+# invalid kill delay
+timeout --kill-after=invalid 1 sleep 0
+test $? = 125 || fail=1
+
# invalid timeout suffix
timeout 42D sleep 0
test $? = 125 || fail=1