Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: > [ Please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] on CC ] > > 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
