Can anyone explain what is going on here? If, in a terminal, I run sleep 10 and then hit Ctrl-C it interrupts the sleep. However, if I use an exec node to run the sleep and kill it with msg.kill set to SIGINT then the exec node shows killed immediately, but the sleep does not complete until it has …

You are right, having investigated further I can see that the exec node starts a shell to run the command, so looking at the active processes I see 27958 0.0 0.0 2600 724 ? SN 11:31 0:00 /bin/sh -c sleep 30 27959 0.0 0.0 8380 696 ? SN 11:31 0:00 sleep 30 and…

Colin 9 June 2020 10:06 9

I have started a new thread to report the apparent negative feature with the Timeout setting in the Exec node

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