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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | bug#21760: timeout: Feature Request: --verbose ==> output if timeout was reached |
Date: | Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:51:57 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 |
On 26/10/15 14:26, Thomas Güttler wrote: > > > Am 26.10.2015 um 12:44 schrieb Pádraig Brady: >> >> I've not sure there is enough distinct actions within timeout(1) to warrant >> --verbose? >> How about doing this in the script? >> >> timeout 1s ping localhost >> test $? = 124 && echo { 'ping timed out'; exit 1; } >> > > The issue was already closed with "wontfix". This leads me to the > conclusion that your are not interested in my answer. > > Was your "How about doing this in the script?" really a question? We can always reopen if necessary. I closed as wontfix for now as the above is a strong suggestion. Generally one needs to handle the timeout in various ways, and printing a diagnostic is just one of those. thanks, Pádraig
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