Enforce timeout with timeout command

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/git-syncd b/git-syncd
index 5f773c3..db1d7a5 100755
--- a/git-syncd
+++ b/git-syncd
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ watcher() {
 	sync "$repo"
 	timeout=$sync_timeout
 	while true; do
-		file=$(inotifywait "$repo" -r -e modify,move,create,delete \
-			--exclude '\.git' ${excludes[@]} -t "$timeout" 2>/dev/null)
+		file=$(timeout "$timeout" inotifywait "$repo" -r \
+			-e modify,move,create,delete --exclude '\.git' \
+			${excludes[@]} 2>/dev/null)
 		if [ ! -z "$file" ]; then
 			echo "inotify wake: $file"
 			timeout=$sync_delay