On 29/03/18 08:31, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.28-1 > Severity: normal > > Control: affects -1 cupt > > > Hello, > > Thank you for maintaining coreutils. I use timeout(1) to conveniently > detect hanging problems in the testsuite of cupt. Unfortunately, on hurd > and hppa it makes the test suite fail. > > This issue is best illustrated through a test case: > > On hurd-i386 the commands which take less time to execute still make > 'timeout' wait full time and exit with the error code: > ----------------------8<--------------------- > $ mkdir abc > $ cd abc > $ timeout 5s ls > $ echo $? > 124 > $ timeout 5s cat > $ echo $? > 124 > ---------------------->8--------------------- > > On, say, amd64 the same scenario works as expected: > ----------------------8<--------------------- > $ mkdir abc > $ cd abc > $ timeout 5s ls > $ echo $? > 0 > $ timeout 5s cat > $ echo $? > 124 > ---------------------->8--------------------- > > I couldn't check this scenario on hppa (as there are no porterboxes for > it), but the bug report #882238 suggests a similar issue has been > encountered on a hppa buildd box. > > On hurd-i386 portexbox, I did verify that the program run under > timeout(1) does exit, but timeout(1) itself continues to run even > though it has no child processes anymore. > >
There was a bug fixed wrt SIGCHLD in coreutils-8.29
