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Author Colm Buckley
Recipients Colm Buckley, Lukasa, Theodore Tso, alex, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-08.14:30:46
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Victor -

Yes, it is possible for it to block forever - see the test I proposed for Ted upthread. The triggering case (systemd-crontab-generator) delays for 90 seconds, but is *killed* by systemd after that time; it doesn't itself time out.

Colm
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