svn commit: r268745 - in head/usr.bin: . timeout

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:25:33PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > Author: bapt
> > Date: Wed Jul 16 09:55:36 2014
> > New Revision: 268745
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/268745
> >
> > Log:
> >   New BSDL timeout(1) utility compatible with GNU timeout
> >   
> >   it fully passes the GNU timeout regression tests, it is written in a mostly
> >   portable way (only signal parsing is relying on non portable structures)
> 
> --version is not supported unlike GNU timeout.

True because I found it not accurate in our case.
> 
> > +.It Fl -preserve-status
> > +Always exist with the same status as
> 
> Exist? What does timeout(1) without the option? The man page lacks
> EXIT STATUS section.
> 
>   $ timeout 1 sleep 10
>   zsh: exit 124

Yes man page could be improved a bit
> 
>   $ timeout --preserve-status 1 sleep 10
>   zsh: exit 143

signaled program have a exit which is 128 + SIGNAL (this is not documented on
GNU version) yes I should document it
> 
> > +	switch (*end) {
> > +	case 's':
> > +		break;
> > +	case 'm':
> > +		ret *= 60;
> > +		break;
> > +	case 'h':
> > +		ret *= 60 * 60;
> > +		break;
> > +	case 'd':
> > +		ret *= 60 * 60 * 24;
> > +		break;
> 
> These suffixes are not documented.

True.

regards,
Bapt
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