Re: What signal should timeout send when it gets a SIGTERM?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 08/03/10 10:14, Kim Hansen wrote:
> 2010/3/8 Pádraig Brady<address@hidden>:
> > An alternative would be to add a new --kill-wait option
> > which could be used to specify an additional timeout before a KILL was sent
> > That would be a general mechanism to terminate "normally" after the timeout
> > or when SIGTERM etc. is sent, but then always setup another timeout
> > to send SIGKILL if the monitored command does not exit.
>
> An other alternative is to add a new --term-signal option that could
> be used to tell what signal the user want forwarded if the timeout
> command gets a TERM. Then I could use the command like this:
>    timeout --signal=KILL --term-signal=KILL 1h ./my_program

That will just nuke it in a hour rather than the more general,
ask it to terminate in an hour, and give it 10s to do so gracefully:

  timeout --kill-wait=10s 1h ./my_program

You can the operation of your command with:

  timeout --signal=KILL --kill-wait=0 1h ./my_program

cheers,
Pádraig.