Re: [PATCH] timeout: fix failure if timeout's parent has ignored SIGCHLD

[Pádraig Brady]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I'm a bit worried about doing the following in this patch.
> It seems to work but I can see ignoring CHLD being
> problematic for some shells/situations.
> I'll probably push without the test.

Oh it looks like tests/install/trap already addresses
the portability concerns I was worrying about.
I'll use that method to run the test.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=tests/install/trap;hb=HEAD

cheers,
Pádraig.