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authorJoachim Wuttke (l) <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de>2019-03-20 17:17:29 (GMT)
committerJoachim Wuttke (l) <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de>2019-03-20 17:17:29 (GMT)
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Help: describe what happens if command execute_process reaches timeout.
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the child processes.
``TIMEOUT``
- The child processes will be terminated if they do not finish in the
- specified number of seconds (fractions are allowed).
+ After the specified number of seconds (fractions allowed), all unfinished
+ child processes will be terminated, and the ``RESULT_VARIABLE`` will be
+ set to a string mentioning the "timeout".
``RESULT_VARIABLE``
The variable will be set to contain the result of last child process.