Re: how to set timeout / signal

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
() Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:51:14 +0100

   Yes, add ‘meta.timeout’ and/or ‘meta.maxSilent’ fields like this:
   [...]
   The ‘meta.timeout’ field is for an absolute timeout, so use with care.

Thanks.  Is meta.foo documentation available somewhere on the net?
Perhaps we can scrape together a simple HOWTO and add it to the repo.

   > Also, IWBN to be able to configure a signal to send prior to the
   > (presumed) SIGKILL.

   That’s not currently possible.  Why would you want that?

To be able to set a handler that dumps state, or run a quick gdb
script (for same).