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0.2.0 (current) Rating: Positive Thoroughness: Medium Understanding: Medium

by Minoru on 2021-05-01

The crate implements a seemingly trivial thing: waiting for a child process to finish, with a timeout.

On Windows, this boils down to a single WinAPI call. I don't know much about Windows, but the code looks okay to me. There is a minor issue of timeouts being capped at ≈49 days, which I reported: https://github.com/alexcrichton/wait-timeout/issues/23

On Unix, the algorithm is much more involved. I understand it, and I believe it to be correct.

The crate calls into libc and WinAPI, so there are a bit of unsafe in here. But it all looks all right to me.


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