Re: timeout

[rory]

>
> I can't really see the need for this. Consider; timeout occurs if a
> program is restarted to many times, so something has to be wrong and
> the best solution is then simply to notify someone, or ?

In my case, I would want to reboot, or put something on the screen.

I can co-opt the alert code for my own uses, but I'd rather stay in sync.

>
> BTW, does the new depend stuff work as expected? I haven't had time to
> test it (I will), I'm just wondering since if it's okay we can starte
> to go into release mode :)

As far as I know. It works with a depend tree that is chained 3 or 4 deep,
and some programs have 2 or more programs depending on them.