Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: timeout
Great idea for a tool! Have you considered an alternate run-mode where it could operate as a filter and timeout on 'inactivity' of the pipeline? If, for instance, I have a pipeline that processes a lot of data and could legitimately take anywhere from a minute to an hour, it's difficult to set an absolute timeout that doesn't risk chopping off the end of the stream. Then, with such a large timeout, my pipeline could stall in the first ten seconds and I wouldn't know for a long time. If, on the other hand, I could say that there shouldn't ever be thirty seconds without a buffer's worth of data coming through, then I could set the timeout very low and know soon after a blockage formed. For example: $ sort -m inputs/* | timeout --inactivity 1m program_prone_to_stalling Where timeout would open a pipe and dup2 the read end to child's STDIN_FILENO before exec'ing. If this sounds like a worthwhile extension I'd be happy to get to work on it and submit a patch once your initial version has settled in. Thanks, Bo _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
