Bo Borgerson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It will always go through though as the kernel will buffer it. > > Yes, that introduces some fuzz, but I think the principle remains > viable -- the kernel will only buffer so much.
That could be a long time though. > > Consider the following using a timeout.c modified with the attached > patch, and a small Perl program (below) than hangs after 10 seconds: > > $ time yes | src/timeout -i 2s ./write_then_hang 10 >/dev/null replacing `yes` with `while true; do yes; sleep 1; done` causes this to hang for ages. I'll have another look at this when I finalize `timeout` thanks, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
