Re: svn commit: r268745 - in head/usr.bin: . timeout

Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Author: bapt
> Date: Wed Jul 16 09:55:36 2014
> New Revision: 268745
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/268745
>
> Log:
>   New BSDL timeout(1) utility compatible with GNU timeout
>   
>   it fully passes the GNU timeout regression tests, it is written in a mostly
>   portable way (only signal parsing is relying on non portable structures)

--version is not supported unlike GNU timeout.

> +.It Fl -preserve-status
> +Always exist with the same status as

Exist? What does timeout(1) without the option? The man page lacks
EXIT STATUS section.

  $ timeout 1 sleep 10
  zsh: exit 124

  $ timeout --preserve-status 1 sleep 10
  zsh: exit 143

> +	switch (*end) {
> +	case 's':
> +		break;
> +	case 'm':
> +		ret *= 60;
> +		break;
> +	case 'h':
> +		ret *= 60 * 60;
> +		break;
> +	case 'd':
> +		ret *= 60 * 60 * 24;
> +		break;

These suffixes are not documented.

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