On Wed 2019-05-22 08:52:55 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>
>> Tests appear to be hanging when run under GNU timeout on debian
>> stretch.  To aid in diagnosing this or similar problems, it's handy to
>> be able to disable timeout from the command line at will.
>>
>
> 1) Do we still need / want this?

Yes, i think it's useful if you want rule out coreutils when debugging
the test suite.

> 2) care to reword the commit message?

Sure, keeping the same subject line, i'd change the body to:



To aid in diagnosing test suite tooling that interacts poorly with
coreutils' timeout, it's handy to be able to bypass it entirely.





This isn't a high priority for me, but it's not a scary change either.

thanks for the review,

           --dkg