Re: Re: yum.cron for testing & examination

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 09:51, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> "David L. Parsley" <[email protected]> writes:
> >  If you know an easier way to
> > accomplish timeouts with bash in a clean way (not leaving cruft
> > processes hanging around) let me know.
> 
> David, to keep things simple you could use the timeout feature of
> bash's "read" built-in.
> 
>   ecashin@kokone tmp$ sh -c "sleep 2 && echo ok" | \
>     { read -t 3 a && echo $a || echo error; }
>   ok
>   ecashin@kokone tmp$ sh -c "sleep 4 && echo ok" | \
>     { read -t 3 a && echo $a || echo error; }
>   error

Yeah, I found out about the 'read' timeout a few hours later, but
decided not to rewrite.  The current version looks pretty readable to
me, and since I use 'sleep', the timeout value is anything sleep
understands (like 12h).  Do you find the script readable, or should I
sprinkle some comments?

David

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