Bug#531025: change in usage should be doc in NEWS. timeout command always take 'time' seconds to finish

[Javier Barroso]

Package: timeout
Version: 1.18-3
Severity: important


Hi,

Recently I noted about a different behaviour in one of my scripts.

I exec: 

timeout 1700 zenity --entry --text "What are you doing"
echo -e "Cat1\nCat2" | zenity --list --text "Category" --column "category"

Time before, second question was asked inmediately after first command was completed (after fill zenity question). Now with this newer timoeut I have to wait 1700 seconds ...

It would be great about have a option to terminate the program when command finish and not after time parameter seconds.

If this issue is the searched, please document it on NEWS or similar file.

An example:
~/empty$ timeout 10 ls
javi at pepinux:~/empty$ ps aux | grep timeout
javi     32111  0.0  0.0   1636   124 pts/3    S    12:12   0:00 timeout 10 ls

Thank you very much

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages timeout depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

timeout recommends no packages.

timeout suggests no packages.

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