Re: how to set timeout / signal

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
() Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:50:18 +0100

   There’s the Nixpkgs manual at [...]

   > Perhaps we can scrape together a simple HOWTO and add it to the repo.

Thanks.  I've just pushed top-level file HACKING that includes this info.

   >    > Also, IWBN to be able to configure a signal to send prior to the
   >    > (presumed) SIGKILL.
   >
   >    That’s not currently possible.  Why would you want that?
   >
   > To be able to set a handler that dumps state, or run a quick gdb
   > script (for same).

   What about doing using, say, timeout(1) from Coreutils, and backtrace(3)
   from libc?

Thanks for the tip.  I'll see what i can cook up.