On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 03:52:33PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: > > On 13.10.2016 21:14, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > > > > > The following example illustrates the issue: > > > > > > > > $ /bin/sh -c "timeout 60 /bin/sh -c \"ls | more\"" > > > > > > > > This command will now hang until the timeout, since the shell, ls(1) and > > > > more(1) commands invoked by timeout(1) will be suspended. I'm not able to reproduce this problem too. > > > It does not hang for me, but then I don't use systemd. Perhaps systemd should > > > be fixed. I have systemd. > > Does not hang for me either on Fedora 24, and I am using systemd, but how is > > this related to the init system > > If systemd was only an init system, I wouldn't object. It has subsumed much > more than initialization, e.g udev, dhcp client, managing cgroups, 'seat > management', etc. My initial reaction to the original problem is that it is > cgroups related. Probably no, the question is where is the problem. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html