From 69fbfd400c8000e7a7aeed399476c6d9c002a0bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:52:25 +0100
Subject: timeout: don't orphan monitored programs if they ignore specified
 signals

* src/timeout.c (install_signal_handlers): Handle any user
specified signal, so that if it does not cause the child
to exit then we don't exit and orphan the child. Previously this
for example, would leave an orphan dd process running:
timeout -sUSR1 1s dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1ed577f7f..315ae5f6d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   were first renamed or unlinked or never modified.
   [The race was introduced in coreutils-7.5]
 
+  timeout now doesn't exit unless the command it is monitoring does,
+  for any specified signal. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0].
+
 ** Changes in behavior
 
   chroot, env, nice, and su fail with status 125, rather than 1, on
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