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Model Checking Contest 2026
16th edition, Hamburg, Germany, June 23, 2026
Execution of r066-tall-177946967700383
Last Updated
Jun 17, 2026

About the Execution of ITS-Tools for CO4-PT-13

Execution Summary
Max Memory
Used (MB)
Time wait (ms) CPU Usage (ms) I/O Wait (ms) Computed Result Execution
Status
539.224 4118.00 13632.00 30.00 FFFTTFFFFFTFFFTT normal

Execution Chart

We display below the execution chart for this examination (boot time has been removed).

Trace from the execution

Formatting '/data/fkordon/mcc2026-input.r066-tall-177946967700383.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=4294967296 backing_file=/data/fkordon/mcc2026-input.qcow2 backing_fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
Waiting for the VM to be ready (probing ssh)
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=====================================================================
Generated by BenchKit 2-5973
Executing tool itstools
Input is CO4-PT-13, examination is ReachabilityFireability
Time confinement is 3600 seconds
Memory confinement is 16384 MBytes
Number of cores is 4
Run identifier is r066-tall-177946967700383
=====================================================================

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preparation of the directory to be used:
/home/mcc/execution
total 532K
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 5.5K Mar 6 13:28 CTLCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 58K Mar 6 13:28 CTLCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 5.6K Mar 6 13:28 CTLFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 54K Mar 6 13:28 CTLFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 3.8K Mar 15 08:31 LTLCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 28K Mar 15 08:31 LTLCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 2.1K Mar 15 08:31 LTLFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 16K Mar 15 08:31 LTLFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 7.5K Mar 6 13:28 ReachabilityCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 72K Mar 6 13:28 ReachabilityCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 5.9K Mar 6 13:28 ReachabilityFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 46K Mar 6 13:28 ReachabilityFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 1.5K Mar 15 08:31 UpperBounds.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 3.5K Mar 15 08:31 UpperBounds.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 6 Mar 3 18:30 equiv_col
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 3 Mar 3 18:30 instance
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 6 Mar 3 18:30 iscolored
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 191K Mar 3 18:30 model.pnml

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content from stdout:

=== Data for post analysis generated by BenchKit (invocation template)

The expected result is a vector of booleans
BOOL_VECTOR

echo here is the order used to build the result vector(from xml file)
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-00
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-01
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-02
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-03
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-04
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-05
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-06
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-07
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-08
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-09
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-10
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-11
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-12
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-13
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-14
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-15

=== Now, execution of the tool begins

BK_START 1779523197989

Invoking MCC driver with
BK_TOOL=itstools
BK_EXAMINATION=ReachabilityFireability
BK_BIN_PATH=/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin/
BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT=3600
BK_INPUT=CO4-PT-13
BK_MEMORY_CONFINEMENT=16384
Not applying reductions.
Model is PT
ReachabilityFireability PT
Running Version 202604301425
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Running its-tools with arguments : [-pnfolder, /home/mcc/execution, -examination, ReachabilityFireability, -its, -ltsmin, -greatspnpath, /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//greatspn/, -order, META, -manyOrder, -smt, -timeout, 3600]
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Parsing pnml file : /home/mcc/execution/model.pnml
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Load time of PNML (sax parser for PT used): 94 ms
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Transformed 649 places.
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Transformed 816 transitions.
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Found NUPN structural information;
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Parsed PT model containing 649 places and 816 transitions and 2232 arcs in 181 ms.
Parsed 16 properties from file /home/mcc/execution/ReachabilityFireability.xml in 10 ms.
Working with output stream class java.io.PrintStream
Deduced a syphon composed of 172 places in 11 ms
Reduce places removed 172 places and 227 transitions.
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-06 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-07 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-08 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-10 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-14 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
RANDOM walk for 40000 steps (269 resets) in 1217 ms. (32 steps per ms) remains 10/11 properties
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-04 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL RANDOM_WALK
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Flatten gal took : 124 ms
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Flatten gal took : 102 ms
BEST_FIRST walk for 40000 steps (150 resets) in 393 ms. (101 steps per ms) remains 9/10 properties
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-01 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Time to serialize gal into /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality920604604796261506.gal : 40 ms
[2026-05-23 07:59:59] [INFO ] Time to serialize properties into /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality9277647610720387244.prop : 1 ms
Invoking ITS tools like this :cd /home/mcc/execution;'/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/itstools/plugins/fr.lip6.move.gal.itstools.binaries_1.0.0.202604301425/bin/its-reach-linux64' '--gc-threshold' '2000000' '--quiet' '-i' '/tmp/ReachabilityCardinality920604604796261506.gal' '-t' 'CGAL' '-reachable-file' '/tmp/ReachabilityCardinality9277647610720387244.prop' '--nowitness' '--gen-order' 'FOLLOW'
BEST_FIRST walk for 40001 steps (222 resets) in 219 ms. (181 steps per ms) remains 9/9 properties

its-reach command run as :

/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/itstools/plugins/fr.lip6.move.gal.itstools.binaries_1.0.0.202604301425/bin/its-reach-linux64 --gc-threshold 2000000 --quiet ...327
BEST_FIRST walk for 40003 steps (231 resets) in 145 ms. (273 steps per ms) remains 9/9 properties
Loading property file /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality9277647610720387244.prop.
BEST_FIRST walk for 40002 steps (196 resets) in 131 ms. (303 steps per ms) remains 8/9 properties
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-05 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
BEST_FIRST walk for 40002 steps (167 resets) in 184 ms. (216 steps per ms) remains 8/8 properties
SDD proceeding with computation,9 properties remain. new max is 4
SDD size :1 after 5
SDD proceeding with computation,9 properties remain. new max is 8
SDD size :5 after 8
SDD proceeding with computation,9 properties remain. new max is 16
SDD size :8 after 9
BEST_FIRST walk for 40000 steps (269 resets) in 175 ms. (227 steps per ms) remains 8/8 properties
SDD proceeding with computation,9 properties remain. new max is 32
SDD size :9 after 14
SDD proceeding with computation,9 properties remain. new max is 64
SDD size :14 after 72
SDD proceeding with computation,9 properties remain. new max is 128
SDD size :72 after 83
SDD proceeding with computation,9 properties remain. new max is 256
SDD size :83 after 101
Invariant property CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-02 does not hold.
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-02 FALSE TECHNIQUES DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL COLLATERAL_PROCESSING
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 256
SDD size :101 after 137
BEST_FIRST walk for 40001 steps (188 resets) in 136 ms. (291 steps per ms) remains 8/8 properties
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 512
SDD size :137 after 163
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 1024
SDD size :163 after 428
Invariant property CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-11 does not hold.
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-11 FALSE TECHNIQUES DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL COLLATERAL_PROCESSING
SDD proceeding with computation,7 properties remain. new max is 1024
SDD size :428 after 37492
BEST_FIRST walk for 40002 steps (169 resets) in 248 ms. (160 steps per ms) remains 7/8 properties
SDD proceeding with computation,7 properties remain. new max is 2048
SDD size :37492 after 37559
BEST_FIRST walk for 40000 steps (89 resets) in 158 ms. (251 steps per ms) remains 7/7 properties
Running PetriSpot : '/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/itstools/plugins/fr.lip6.petrispot.binaries_1.0.0.202604301425/bin/petri64' '--loadKERS=/tmp/petrispot-input-1388828528276716612.kers' '--Pflows' '--basisKERS=/tmp/petrispot-output-8833084501635957892.kers'
[2026-05-23 08:00:00] [INFO ] Running PetriSpot with arguments : [--loadKERS=/tmp/petrispot-input-1388828528276716612.kers, --Pflows, --basisKERS=/tmp/petrispot-output-8833084501635957892.kers]
Culled 0 columns in 0 ms.
// Phase 1: matrix 589 rows 477 cols 1578 entries
Finished phase 1 with 458 SingleSign rule and 10 generalized
[2026-05-23 08:00:00] [INFO ] Computed 9 invariants in 2 ms
Computed 9 P flows in 3 ms.
Exported basis to /tmp/petrispot-output-8833084501635957892.kers
Total runtime 3 ms.
Reachability property CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-15 is true.
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-15 TRUE TECHNIQUES DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL COLLATERAL_PROCESSING
Reachability property CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-03 is true.
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-03 TRUE TECHNIQUES DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL COLLATERAL_PROCESSING
SDD proceeding with computation,5 properties remain. new max is 2048
SDD size :37559 after 38171
Excessive predecessor constraint size, skipping predecessor.
All remaining problems are real, not stopping.
At refinement iteration 0 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/31 variables, 31/31 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 1 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/31 variables, 0/31 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 4 unsolved
Problem CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-13 is UNSAT
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-13 FALSE TECHNIQUES SMT_REFINEMENT
At refinement iteration 2 (OVERLAPS) 376/407 variables, 8/39 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 3 unsolved
Invariant property CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-00 does not hold.
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-00 FALSE TECHNIQUES DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL COLLATERAL_PROCESSING
SDD proceeding with computation,4 properties remain. new max is 2048
SDD size :38171 after 205615
At refinement iteration 3 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/407 variables, 376/415 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 4 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/407 variables, 0/415 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
SDD proceeding with computation,4 properties remain. new max is 4096
SDD size :205615 after 711560
At refinement iteration 5 (OVERLAPS) 70/477 variables, 1/416 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 6 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/477 variables, 70/486 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 7 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/477 variables, 0/486 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 8 (OVERLAPS) 589/1066 variables, 477/963 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 9 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/1066 variables, 0/963 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
SDD proceeding with computation,4 properties remain. new max is 8192
SDD size :711560 after 1.36986e+06
At refinement iteration 10 (OVERLAPS) 0/1066 variables, 0/963 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
No progress, stopping.
After SMT solving in domain Real declared 1066/1066 variables, and 963 constraints, problems are : Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved in 636 ms.
Refiners :[Domain max(s): 477/477 constraints, Positive P Invariants (semi-flows): 8/8 constraints, Generalized P Invariants (flows): 1/1 constraints, State Equation: 477/477 constraints, PredecessorRefiner: 6/5 constraints, Known Traps: 0/0 constraints, Known Traps Along Path: 0/0 constraints]
Escalating to Integer solving :Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 0 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/10 variables, 10/10 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 1 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/10 variables, 0/10 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 2 (OVERLAPS) 388/398 variables, 6/16 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
At refinement iteration 3 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/398 variables, 388/404 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 4 solved, 2 unsolved
Problem CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-09 is UNSAT
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-09 FALSE TECHNIQUES SMT_REFINEMENT
At refinement iteration 4 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/398 variables, 2/406 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 5 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/398 variables, 0/406 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 6 (OVERLAPS) 6/404 variables, 2/408 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 7 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/404 variables, 6/414 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 8 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/404 variables, 0/414 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 9 (OVERLAPS) 73/477 variables, 1/415 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 10 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/477 variables, 73/488 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 11 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/477 variables, 0/488 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 12 (OVERLAPS) 589/1066 variables, 477/965 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 13 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/1066 variables, 1/966 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 14 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/1066 variables, 0/966 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
At refinement iteration 15 (OVERLAPS) 0/1066 variables, 0/966 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
No progress, stopping.
After SMT solving in domain Int declared 1066/1066 variables, and 966 constraints, problems are : Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved in 920 ms.
Refiners :[Domain max(s): 477/477 constraints, Positive P Invariants (semi-flows): 8/8 constraints, Generalized P Invariants (flows): 1/1 constraints, State Equation: 477/477 constraints, PredecessorRefiner: 1/5 constraints, Known Traps: 2/2 constraints, Known Traps Along Path: 0/0 constraints]
After SMT, in 1632ms problems are : Problem set: 5 solved, 1 unsolved
Finished Parikh walk after 3396 steps, including 66 resets, run visited all 1 properties in 10 ms. (steps per millisecond=339 )
FORMULA CO4-PT-13-ReachabilityFireability-2024-12 FALSE TECHNIQUES PARIKH_WALK
Parikh walk visited 1 properties in 15 ms.
ITS runner timed out or was interrupted.
ITS tools runner thread asked to quit. Dying gracefully.
All properties solved without resorting to model-checking.
Total runtime 2999 ms.

BK_STOP 1779523202107

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content from stderr:

+ export BINDIR=/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//../
+ BINDIR=/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//../
++ pwd
+ export MODEL=/home/mcc/execution
+ MODEL=/home/mcc/execution
+ [[ ReachabilityFireability = StateSpace ]]
+ /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//runeclipse.sh /home/mcc/execution ReachabilityFireability -its -ltsmin -greatspnpath /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//greatspn/ -order META -manyOrder -smt -timeout 3600
+ ulimit -s 65536
+ [[ -z '' ]]
+ export LTSMIN_MEM_SIZE=8589934592
+ LTSMIN_MEM_SIZE=8589934592
++ sed s/.jar//
++ perl -pe 's/.*\.//g'
++ ls /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//itstools/plugins/fr.lip6.move.gal.application.pnmcc_1.0.0.202604301425.jar
+ VERSION=202604301425
+ echo 'Running Version 202604301425'
+ /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//itstools/its-tools -pnfolder /home/mcc/execution -examination ReachabilityFireability -its -ltsmin -greatspnpath /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//greatspn/ -order META -manyOrder -smt -timeout 3600

Sequence of Actions to be Executed by the VM

This is useful if one wants to reexecute the tool in the VM from the submitted image disk.

set -x
# this is for BenchKit: configuration of major elements for the test
export BK_INPUT="CO4-PT-13"
export BK_EXAMINATION="ReachabilityFireability"
export BK_TOOL="itstools"
export BK_RESULT_DIR="/tmp/BK_RESULTS/OUTPUTS"
export BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT="3600"
export BK_MEMORY_CONFINEMENT="16384"
export BK_BIN_PATH="/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin/"

# this is specific to your benchmark or test

export BIN_DIR="$HOME/BenchKit/bin"

# remove the execution directoty if it exists (to avoid increse of .vmdk images)
if [ -d execution ] ; then
rm -rf execution
fi

# this is for BenchKit: explicit launching of the test
echo "====================================================================="
echo " Generated by BenchKit 2-5973"
echo " Executing tool itstools"
echo " Input is CO4-PT-13, examination is ReachabilityFireability"
echo " Time confinement is $BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT seconds"
echo " Memory confinement is 16384 MBytes"
echo " Number of cores is 4"
echo " Run identifier is r066-tall-177946967700383"
echo "====================================================================="
echo
echo "--------------------"
echo "preparation of the directory to be used:"

tar xzf /home/mcc/BenchKit/INPUTS/CO4-PT-13.tgz
mv CO4-PT-13 execution
cd execution
if [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "ReachabilityDeadlock" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "UpperBounds" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "QuasiLiveness" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "StableMarking" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "Liveness" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "OneSafe" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "StateSpace" ]; then
rm -f GenericPropertiesVerdict.xml
fi
pwd
ls -lh

echo
echo "--------------------"
echo "content from stdout:"
echo
echo "=== Data for post analysis generated by BenchKit (invocation template)"
echo
if [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "UpperBounds" ] ; then
echo "The expected result is a vector of positive values"
echo NUM_VECTOR
elif [ "ReachabilityFireability" != "StateSpace" ] ; then
echo "The expected result is a vector of booleans"
echo BOOL_VECTOR
else
echo "no data necessary for post analysis"
fi
echo
if [ -f "ReachabilityFireability.xml" ] ; then # for cunf (txt files deleted;-)
echo echo "here is the order used to build the result vector(from xml file)"
for x in $(grep '' ReachabilityFireability.xml | cut -d '>' -f 2 | cut -d '<' -f 1 | sort -u) ; do
echo "FORMULA_NAME $x"
done
elif [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "ReachabilityDeadlock" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "QuasiLiveness" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "StableMarking" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "Liveness" ] || [ "ReachabilityFireability" = "OneSafe" ] ; then
echo "FORMULA_NAME ReachabilityFireability"
fi
echo
echo "=== Now, execution of the tool begins"
echo
echo -n "BK_START "
date -u +%s%3N
echo
timeout -s 9 $BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT bash -c "/home/mcc/BenchKit/BenchKit_head.sh 2> STDERR ; echo ; echo -n \"BK_STOP \" ; date -u +%s%3N"
if [ $? -eq 137 ] ; then
echo
echo "BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT_REACHED"
fi
echo
echo "--------------------"
echo "content from stderr:"
echo
cat STDERR ;