Timeouts not working is a known bug (documented in the HOWTO, but not
the man page, as I expected this to be resolved sooner).
To quote Juanjo Ciarlante from 16-September:
> Merged in DaveM's tree AND also sent to Linus for #2 time (about 1
> week ago).
I expect a fix is imminent.
Rusty.
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