[sos-devel] [RFC] wrap commands in /usr/bin/timeout when available

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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Hi Folks,

So I thought out a proposal for a "timeout" command to use to address
our long-standing problem with commands that hang on us during data
collection.

Turns out (thanks Eric Blake! ;) that coreutils already introduced
this in 7.0 so it's available in all modern distros and should be an
easy backport to older stuff.

I think this probably hits 80% of the problems we see with "sosreport
hangs" reports. The rest is harder but this moves us in the right
direction (at the expense of some extra fork/exec overhead).

Regards,
Bryn.
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