bug#8938: make timeout and CTRL-C

[Pádraig Brady]

On 28/06/11 19:45, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 06/28/11 11:41, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> The main problem with that is would only
>> send the signal to the first process, and
>> any processes it started would keep running.
> 
> Yes, that's the main issue with it.  Still,
> it's handy for programs where you either know
> it doesn't use subprocesses, or you *want* to
> kill just the main program and not its subprocesses.
> 
> I don't think it should be the default option,
> but it'd be nice to have it as an option.

OK I've added --foreground to support this.
Note it still maintains a separate timeout
monitor process to return 124 on timeout etc.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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