On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:38:06PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > With a hint from Paul Jantzen I did test this a bit further. There's > code to avoid having a child runing too long. If you have 20s > patience, you'll see this: > > calendar: uid 1000 did not finish in time
Now that's interesting. I certainly don't see this message. Here's what I did: $ mkfifo c $ ./calendar -f c I killed the program after 40 minutes without any action from it, strace verifies it still waits in open(). Could it be that this works differently on OpenBSD? Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael.meskes at googlemail dot com VfL Borussia! ForC'a BarC'a! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL