Ubuntu
tct package

important fix for "timeout" in Debian

Bug #449194 reported by Aron Griffis
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tct (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: tct

Due to an incorrect earlier patch, timeout always waits the full time when used in a pipeline:

$ time -15 4 true
real 0m0.013s

$ time -15 4 true | cat
real 0m4.012s

This bug was reported and fixed in Debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532342

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 11 21:25:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: timeout 1.18-3
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
SourcePackage: tct
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686

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Aron Griffis (agriffis) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in tct (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Alex Chiang (achiang) wrote :

Ubuntu sync'ed this package from Debian, and has had it since Lucid.

Aron, thanks for fixing it in Debian, and apologies that this Ubuntu bug has been neglected for so long.

I'm closing this out as fix released.

Changed in tct (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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