History log of /src/bin/timeout/timeout.c (Results 1 – 25 of 37)
Revision Date Author Comments
# 08208cd6 13-Feb-2026 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>

timeout: Clean up

* Annotate logv() and fix format string bug.

* Don't reinvent str2sig(3).

* Reorganize kill_self() so we unblock signals as late as possible, and
use raise(2) instead of kill(2

timeout: Clean up

* Annotate logv() and fix format string bug.

* Don't reinvent str2sig(3).

* Reorganize kill_self() so we unblock signals as late as possible, and
use raise(2) instead of kill(2).

* Explicitly close unused pipe descriptors.

* Use correct type to collect result of read(2) and write(2).

* Compare return values to 0, not -1.

* Sort local variables according to style(9).

* Reduce unnecessary nesting.

* Reindent.

* Fix typo in manual page.

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Reviewed by: kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55277

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# 81ef0012 09-Jun-2025 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

timeout(1): pass full 32bit error return code from the exited child

Switch to use waitid(2) to receive siginfo_t with the complete error
code from the exited process.

Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: ma

timeout(1): pass full 32bit error return code from the exited child

Switch to use waitid(2) to receive siginfo_t with the complete error
code from the exited process.

Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50752

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# aa8cdb7c 08-Jun-2025 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

timeout(1): only start the child command after the parent is fully set up

Since the default disposition for SIGCHLD is ignore, the prematurely
exited child would cause SIGCHLD dropped. This makes t

timeout(1): only start the child command after the parent is fully set up

Since the default disposition for SIGCHLD is ignore, the prematurely
exited child would cause SIGCHLD dropped. This makes timeout(1) hang,
because REAP_STATUS reports a zombie not waited for, but SIGCHLD for it
was already lost, so the main loop cannot exit, instead calling into
sigsuspend().

Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50752

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# bff05e8a 07-Jun-2025 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

timeout(1): print errno when signalling syscalls failed

Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5

timeout(1): print errno when signalling syscalls failed

Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50752

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# 15e4b8d5 07-Jun-2025 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

timeout(1): silence warnings for ESRCH

It is possible for the child to become zombie and then there is nothing
to signal.

Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Fo

timeout(1): silence warnings for ESRCH

It is possible for the child to become zombie and then there is nothing
to signal.

Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50752

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# 61331026 03-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Kill self with the same signal that terminated the child

A shell may not set '$?' to '128 + signal_number' when the process was
terminated by a signal. For example, KornShell 93 sets '$

timeout(1): Kill self with the same signal that terminated the child

A shell may not set '$?' to '128 + signal_number' when the process was
terminated by a signal. For example, KornShell 93 sets '$?' to
'256 + signal_number' in such cases. In order to avoid any possible
ambiguity, the POSIX.1-2024 standard requires that timeout mimic the
wait status of the child process by terminating itself with the same
signal, while disabling core generation.

Update the man page accordingly.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD
Reference: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/timeout.html

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# 844cef26 03-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Catch all signals and propagate them

The POSIX.1-2024 standard requires that timeout(1) utility propagate all
signals except SIGALRM, so timeout(1) needs to catch all signals for
this pu

timeout(1): Catch all signals and propagate them

The POSIX.1-2024 standard requires that timeout(1) utility propagate all
signals except SIGALRM, so timeout(1) needs to catch all signals for
this purpose. In addition, we need to separate those signals whose
default action is to terminate the program, because timeout(1) should
start the second timer for the kill signal if those signals are
received.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD
Reference: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/timeout.html

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# 2390cbfe 03-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Fix the inheritance of signal dispositions

POSIX.1-2024 requires that the child process inherit the same signal
dispositions as the timeout(1) utility inherited, except for the signal
to

timeout(1): Fix the inheritance of signal dispositions

POSIX.1-2024 requires that the child process inherit the same signal
dispositions as the timeout(1) utility inherited, except for the signal
to be sent upon timeout.

For example, when timeout(1) is run by nohup(1), the command should be
protected from SIGHUP.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD

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# 8e1d9fe0 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Improve to show more verbose log messages


# aae3eb24 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Fix the handling of repeated terminating signals

This actually fixes the following two issues:

* If a terminating signal (e.g., HUP/INT/TERM) was received, timeout
would propagate it

timeout(1): Fix the handling of repeated terminating signals

This actually fixes the following two issues:

* If a terminating signal (e.g., HUP/INT/TERM) was received, timeout
would propagate it to the command and then ignore it. So it was
unable to resend the same terminating signal to the command. This was
different from the GNU's timeout(1), and also contradicted the
POSIX.1-2024 standard.

* Sending two different terminating signals would break timeout(1)'s
--kill-after mechanism. That was because the second signal would
break the for() loop, so the second SIGALRM set by '--kill-after'
would never be caught.

For example, in one shell run:
$ time timeout -f -v -s INT -k 1 2 sh -T -c \
'trap date INT HUP; sleep 5; echo ok; date'
and in another shell run:
$ pkill -INT timeout; pkill -HUP timeout
in the end, the time(1) would report it cost 5 seconds instead of the
expected 3 seconds.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD

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# 06c74693 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Also send SIGCONT because the child may be stopped

The POSIX.1-2024 says:

"If the subsequent wait status of the child process shows that it was
stopped by a signal, a SIGCONT signal sha

timeout(1): Also send SIGCONT because the child may be stopped

The POSIX.1-2024 says:

"If the subsequent wait status of the child process shows that it was
stopped by a signal, a SIGCONT signal shall also be sent in the same
manner as the first signal; otherwise, a SIGCONT signal may be sent in
the same manner."

As it's allowed by the standard, we just always send the SIGCONT signal
to the child process regardless of its stop state, so that timeout could
terminate a stopped child.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD
Reference: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/timeout.html

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# 086f1785 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Enhance send_sig() and prepare for later updates

Enhance send_sig() to better encapsulate the signal sending for
both foreground and non-foreground modes. This also fixes the issue
that

timeout(1): Enhance send_sig() and prepare for later updates

Enhance send_sig() to better encapsulate the signal sending for
both foreground and non-foreground modes. This also fixes the issue
that the latter mode was missing verbose messages.

In addition, improve the verbose logging for signals.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD

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# 8a9927ec 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Add -f and -p options as per POSIX.1-2024

POSIX.1-2024 first defined the timeout(1) utility and specified the '-f'
and '-p' options, which are the short versions of '--foreground' and
'-

timeout(1): Add -f and -p options as per POSIX.1-2024

POSIX.1-2024 first defined the timeout(1) utility and specified the '-f'
and '-p' options, which are the short versions of '--foreground' and
'--preserve-status' options, respectively. Add the short versions to
comply with the Standard.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD
Reference: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/timeout.html

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# c5cdc130 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Handle sig_alrm and sig_term together to dedup code

Merge the 'sig_alrm' and 'sig_term' conditionals, and thus reduce some
duplicate code.

Obtained-from: DragonFly BSD


# 790e3617 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Multiple minor tweaks and cleanups


# 92f8006e 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): sig_atomic_t variables must also be 'volatile'

Obtained-from: OpenBSD (via DragonFly BSD)


# 35503fe2 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Use _exit(2) instead of err() in child if exec failed

* The child should _exit(2) instead of calling exit(3) via err(3) if the
execvp() failed.
* execvp(2) does not return except on er

timeout(1): Use _exit(2) instead of err() in child if exec failed

* The child should _exit(2) instead of calling exit(3) via err(3) if the
execvp() failed.
* execvp(2) does not return except on error, so there is no need to
check if the return value is -1.

Obtained-from: OpenBSD (via DragonFly BSD)

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# e7bf1e5f 02-Apr-2025 Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>

timeout(1): Improve duration parsing and error messages

Obtained-from: OpenBSD (via DragonFly BSD)


# d633a7d1 04-Jan-2025 Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>

timeout(1): Add -v/--verbose option to show diagnosis info

The -v/--verbose option enables this utility to show diagnosis
info to stderr about any signal sent on timeout.

This implementation refers

timeout(1): Add -v/--verbose option to show diagnosis info

The -v/--verbose option enables this utility to show diagnosis
info to stderr about any signal sent on timeout.

This implementation refers to GNU coreutils's timeout(1).

Reviewed by: bapt, Alexander Ziaee (manpages)
Approved by: bapt (src)
Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48225

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# 06690044 28-Dec-2024 Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>

timeout(1): Some minor tweaks and improvements

- Define exit status and macros and use them
- Improve the second kill logic by setting 'do_second_kill = false'
after configuring the second kill
-

timeout(1): Some minor tweaks and improvements

- Define exit status and macros and use them
- Improve the second kill logic by setting 'do_second_kill = false'
after configuring the second kill
- Minor style tweaks
- Reorder options in the man page, as well as the usage help
- Reorder the exit status in the man page
- Enhance the HISTORY section in the man page (obtained from NetBSD)

Reviewed by: bapt, Alexander Ziaee (manpages)
Approved by: bapt (src)
Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47866

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# 4d8d9111 03-Jan-2024 rilysh <nightquick@proton.me>

bin/timeout: remove unreachable break after usage()

Signed-off-by: rilysh <nightquick@proton.me>
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/872


# 1d386b48 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# e7ab1336 01-Feb-2023 Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>

timeout: Move from /usr/bin to /bin

timeout(1) is used by /etc/rc.d/zfskeys. Unfortunately, having
timeout(1) installed in /usr/bin causes problems when /usr is an
encrypted ZFS partition.

Implemen

timeout: Move from /usr/bin to /bin

timeout(1) is used by /etc/rc.d/zfskeys. Unfortunately, having
timeout(1) installed in /usr/bin causes problems when /usr is an
encrypted ZFS partition.

Implementing timeout(1) in sh(1) is not trivial. A more elegant solution
is to move timeout(1) to /bin so that it is available to early services
in the boot process.

PR: 265221
Reviewed by: allanjude, des, imp
Approved by: allanjude, des, imp
Reported by: Ivan <r4@sovserv.ru>
Fixes: 33ff39796ffe Add zfskeys rc.d script for auto-loading encryption keys
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Modirum MDPay
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38344

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# 3f550f01 20-Oct-2021 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>

timeout: style fixes


# 68914dab 20-Oct-2021 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>

timeout: eliminate usage of sysexits

It brings no value at all the sysexits and maybe misleading as the
return value of timeout(1) matters.


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