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bug#51128: timeout --kill-after=0 seems to not send a kill 0s after the


From: Christoph Anton Mitterer
Subject: bug#51128: timeout --kill-after=0 seems to not send a kill 0s after the initial signal
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:03:29 +0200
User-agent: Evolution 3.42.0-2

On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 14:53 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Well DURATIONs of 0 were mentioned a little below that.

Hmm ok,... I see, since both use the symbol <duration>... and you use
the word "associated"... one could have also understood it from the
beginning like that.


> -This option has no effect if @command{timeout}'s duration is 0 which
> -disables the associated timeout.
> +This option has no effect if either the main @var{duration}
> +of the @command{timeout} command, or the @var{duration} specified
> +to this option, is 0.

Much better though IMO :-)


Thanks,
Chris.





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