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bug #45133: time exit status for killed subprocess

Submitter:  Andrei Gaponenko <andr>
Submitted:  Mon 18 May 2015 03:43:16 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  None
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Mon 18 May 2015 03:43:16 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

If a process monitored by the GNU time utility is killed, time returns the signal number as the status code.   I suggest to return 128+signal instead for such cases, consistent with signal handling in bash.

If one runs a program in a batch system, and the program is killed by a signal, the exit status of the batch script indicates the signal kill, providing valuable diagnostic.  Instead of running

program

directly from the shell, I like running

/usr/bin/time program

where /usr/bin/time is the GNU time utility.  That provides useful information about resource usage.  However when the program is killed by a signal, the current behavior of the time utility masks that fact and makes it look like the program exited voluntarily with a non-zero exit code.   The patch below would address the issue.

Andrei

diff --git a/time.c b/time.c
index ee13dd7..fa35dae 100644
--- a/time.c
+++ b/time.c
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ main (argc, argv)
   if (WIFSTOPPED (res.waitstatus))
     exit (WSTOPSIG (res.waitstatus));
   else if (WIFSIGNALED (res.waitstatus))
-    exit (WTERMSIG (res.waitstatus));
+    exit (128 + WTERMSIG (res.waitstatus));
   else if (WIFEXITED (res.waitstatus))
     exit (WEXITSTATUS (res.waitstatus));
 }

Andrei Gaponenko <andr>

 

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