From c403c31e8806b732e1164ef4a206b0eab71bca95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:03:30 +0000 Subject: 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. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2a3ca63be..2be9633a0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- join now accepts the --header option, to treat the first line of each file as a header line to be joined and printed unconditionally. + timeout now accepts the --kill-after option which sends a kill + signal to the monitored command if it's still running the specified + duration after the initial signal was sent. + who: the "+/-" --mesg (-T) indicator of whether a user/tty is accepting messages could be incorrectly listed as "+", when in fact, the user was not accepting messages (mesg no). Before, who would examine only the -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf