Re: timeout.c

[Pádraig Brady]

Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
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> 
> Hi!
> 
> I just discovered that the timeout(1) utility written by Dan Farmer on 1999
> (http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/) is not free software (modification
> is forbidden).
> 
> Since the program is small, I decided to rewrite it from scratch.  I think
> it would be nice to have it in GNU coreutils.  Would you please consider it?

I hadn't heard of Dan Farmer's util.
This is useful, though easily implementable in shell:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/timeout

I'm 60/40 for including this in coreutils.

cheers,
Pádraig.