Re: [PATCH] testsuite: handle busybox's timeout

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 06:31:39PM +0200, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> The busybox version of timeout(1) requires that the duration
> is given via a '-t' option.
> 
> However, the GNU coreutils' version has no such option and simply
> take the duration as its first argument.
> 
> Fix the test-suite script to detect which version is used and pass
> the duration accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>

Rather than detecting the version, how about looking at `timeout --help`
for '-t\>' or '-k\>' ?

(Or, for that matter, teaching busybox to know better. At some point,
especially for commands unspecified by POSIX, I think it'd make sense to
just treat deficiencies as bugs.)
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