2011/7/17 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>: > On 07/17/11 05:31, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Well my reasoning for having "0" mean don't timeout, >> was to have an easy way in scripts to specify no timeout > > That's a good thing to have, but it could be specified in > a different way. One possibility is the '1' (digit 1) option, > e.g., "timeout -1 FOO". Or if that's too clever, we could > use some other letter for the option.
I'm not sure that's worked out so well for tail. But if we are looking for an argument indicating we don't want a timeout, the argument "never" is quite clear. James.
