Bo Borgerson wrote: > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: timeout > > Great idea for a tool!
Not my idea TBH: http://mail.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2006-November/thread.html#90654 > Have you considered an alternate run-mode where it could operate as a > filter and timeout on 'inactivity' of the pipeline? > > 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. How would `timeout` determine when `program_prone_to_stalling` issues read()s ? cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
