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Re: RFC: timeout --foreground should not send SIGCONT
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: RFC: timeout --foreground should not send SIGCONT |
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Wed, 13 May 2015 13:50:25 +0100 |
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On 02/05/15 16:04, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Given the issues that gdb at least has with SIGCONT,
> it might be handy to have sending those as an option.
> Now the main reason they are sent is so that
> the following times out for example:
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> timeout 1 cat&
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> I.E. a _background_ process that is stopped due to receiving SIGTTIN.
> That therefore overlaps quite nicely with --foreground as the option
> that causes SIGCONT not to be sent?
I decided to push that change:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=45b8fe4
cheers,
Pádraig