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Model Checking Contest 2026
16th edition, Hamburg, Germany, June 23, 2026
Execution of r066-tall-177946967700399
Last Updated
Jun 17, 2026

About the Execution of ITS-Tools for CO4-PT-15

Execution Summary
Max Memory
Used (MB)
Time wait (ms) CPU Usage (ms) I/O Wait (ms) Computed Result Execution
Status
504.880 10015.00 25504.00 60.40 TTFFTFTFTTTTFFFF 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-177946967700399.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-15, examination is ReachabilityFireability
Time confinement is 3600 seconds
Memory confinement is 16384 MBytes
Number of cores is 4
Run identifier is r066-tall-177946967700399
=====================================================================

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preparation of the directory to be used:
/home/mcc/execution
total 644K
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 7.9K Mar 6 13:26 CTLCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 88K Mar 6 13:26 CTLCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 4.6K Mar 6 13:26 CTLFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 38K Mar 6 13:26 CTLFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 3.9K Mar 15 08:32 LTLCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 29K Mar 15 08:32 LTLCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 2.1K Mar 15 08:32 LTLFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 18K Mar 15 08:32 LTLFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 6.6K Mar 6 13:26 ReachabilityCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 64K Mar 6 13:26 ReachabilityCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 9.1K Mar 6 13:26 ReachabilityFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 80K Mar 6 13:26 ReachabilityFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 1.5K Mar 15 08:32 UpperBounds.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 3.5K Mar 15 08:32 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 255K 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-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-00
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-01
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-02
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-03
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-04
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-05
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-06
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-07
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-08
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-09
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-10
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-11
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-12
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-13
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-14
FORMULA_NAME CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-15

=== Now, execution of the tool begins

BK_START 1779523735091

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-15
BK_MEMORY_CONFINEMENT=16384
Not applying reductions.
Model is PT
ReachabilityFireability PT
Running Version 202604301425
[2026-05-23 08:08:56] [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 08:08:56] [INFO ] Parsing pnml file : /home/mcc/execution/model.pnml
[2026-05-23 08:08:56] [INFO ] Load time of PNML (sax parser for PT used): 103 ms
[2026-05-23 08:08:56] [INFO ] Transformed 833 places.
[2026-05-23 08:08:56] [INFO ] Transformed 1106 transitions.
[2026-05-23 08:08:56] [INFO ] Found NUPN structural information;
[2026-05-23 08:08:56] [INFO ] Parsed PT model containing 833 places and 1106 transitions and 2980 arcs in 204 ms.
Parsed 16 properties from file /home/mcc/execution/ReachabilityFireability.xml in 14 ms.
Working with output stream class java.io.PrintStream
Deduced a syphon composed of 124 places in 11 ms
Reduce places removed 124 places and 197 transitions.
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-01 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-03 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-08 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-09 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-14 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
RANDOM walk for 40000 steps (902 resets) in 1774 ms. (22 steps per ms) remains 8/11 properties
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-05 FALSE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL RANDOM_WALK
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-04 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL RANDOM_WALK
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-00 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL RANDOM_WALK
[2026-05-23 08:08:57] [INFO ] Flatten gal took : 199 ms
BEST_FIRST walk for 40003 steps (158 resets) in 430 ms. (92 steps per ms) remains 8/8 properties
[2026-05-23 08:08:57] [INFO ] Flatten gal took : 127 ms
BEST_FIRST walk for 40003 steps (101 resets) in 270 ms. (147 steps per ms) remains 8/8 properties
[2026-05-23 08:08:57] [INFO ] Time to serialize gal into /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality3254836603683407873.gal : 68 ms
[2026-05-23 08:08:57] [INFO ] Time to serialize properties into /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality13108629094395314510.prop : 2 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/ReachabilityCardinality3254836603683407873.gal' '-t' 'CGAL' '-reachable-file' '/tmp/ReachabilityCardinality13108629094395314510.prop' '--nowitness' '--gen-order' 'FOLLOW'

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 ...329
BEST_FIRST walk for 40003 steps (159 resets) in 721 ms. (55 steps per ms) remains 8/8 properties
BEST_FIRST walk for 40003 steps (153 resets) in 111 ms. (357 steps per ms) remains 7/8 properties
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-10 TRUE TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
Loading property file /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality13108629094395314510.prop.
BEST_FIRST walk for 40003 steps (134 resets) in 166 ms. (239 steps per ms) remains 7/7 properties
BEST_FIRST walk for 40004 steps (154 resets) in 164 ms. (242 steps per ms) remains 7/7 properties
BEST_FIRST walk for 40004 steps (166 resets) in 120 ms. (330 steps per ms) remains 7/7 properties
BEST_FIRST walk for 40004 steps (112 resets) in 157 ms. (253 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-14720659641387072348.kers' '--Pflows' '--basisKERS=/tmp/petrispot-output-2047651856951058881.kers'
[2026-05-23 08:08:57] [INFO ] Running PetriSpot with arguments : [--loadKERS=/tmp/petrispot-input-14720659641387072348.kers, --Pflows, --basisKERS=/tmp/petrispot-output-2047651856951058881.kers]
Culled 0 columns in 0 ms.
// Phase 1: matrix 909 rows 709 cols 2322 entries
Finished phase 1 with 689 SingleSign rule and 8 generalized
[2026-05-23 08:08:57] [INFO ] Computed 12 invariants in 3 ms
Computed 12 P flows in 4 ms.
Exported basis to /tmp/petrispot-output-2047651856951058881.kers
Total runtime 5 ms.
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 4
SDD size :1 after 5
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 8
SDD size :5 after 7
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 16
SDD size :7 after 8
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 32
SDD size :8 after 9
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 64
SDD size :9 after 34
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 128
SDD size :34 after 48
SDD proceeding with computation,8 properties remain. new max is 256
SDD size :48 after 73
Excessive predecessor constraint size, skipping predecessor.
Invariant property CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-07 does not hold.
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-07 FALSE TECHNIQUES DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL COLLATERAL_PROCESSING
SDD proceeding with computation,7 properties remain. new max is 256
SDD size :73 after 120
SDD proceeding with computation,7 properties remain. new max is 512
SDD size :120 after 789
SDD proceeding with computation,7 properties remain. new max is 1024
SDD size :789 after 1392
SDD proceeding with computation,7 properties remain. new max is 2048
SDD size :1392 after 2548
All remaining problems are real, not stopping.
At refinement iteration 0 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/116 variables, 116/116 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 1 solved, 6 unsolved
At refinement iteration 1 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/116 variables, 0/116 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 1 solved, 6 unsolved
Problem CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-02 is UNSAT
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-02 FALSE TECHNIQUES SMT_REFINEMENT
At refinement iteration 2 (OVERLAPS) 541/657 variables, 10/126 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 5 unsolved
At refinement iteration 3 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/657 variables, 541/667 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 5 unsolved
SDD proceeding with computation,7 properties remain. new max is 4096
SDD size :2548 after 166138
At refinement iteration 4 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/657 variables, 0/667 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 5 unsolved
At refinement iteration 5 (OVERLAPS) 3/660 variables, 1/668 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 5 unsolved
At refinement iteration 6 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/660 variables, 3/671 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 5 unsolved
At refinement iteration 7 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/660 variables, 0/671 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 2 solved, 5 unsolved
Problem CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-13 is UNSAT
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-13 FALSE TECHNIQUES SMT_REFINEMENT
At refinement iteration 8 (OVERLAPS) 49/709 variables, 1/672 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 9 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/709 variables, 49/721 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 10 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/709 variables, 0/721 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 11 (OVERLAPS) 909/1618 variables, 709/1430 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 12 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/1618 variables, 0/1430 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 13 (OVERLAPS) 0/1618 variables, 0/1430 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
No progress, stopping.
After SMT solving in domain Real declared 1618/1618 variables, and 1430 constraints, problems are : Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved in 2862 ms.
Refiners :[Domain max(s): 709/709 constraints, Positive P Invariants (semi-flows): 11/11 constraints, Generalized P Invariants (flows): 1/1 constraints, State Equation: 709/709 constraints, PredecessorRefiner: 6/4 constraints, Known Traps: 0/0 constraints, Known Traps Along Path: 0/0 constraints]
Escalating to Integer solving :Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 0 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/68 variables, 68/68 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 1 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/68 variables, 0/68 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 2 (OVERLAPS) 585/653 variables, 9/77 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 3 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/653 variables, 585/662 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
Reachability property CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-10 is true.
SDD proceeding with computation,6 properties remain. new max is 4096
SDD size :166138 after 1.68189e+06
At refinement iteration 4 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/653 variables, 1/663 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 5 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/653 variables, 0/663 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 6 (OVERLAPS) 4/657 variables, 2/665 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 7 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/657 variables, 4/669 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 8 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/657 variables, 0/669 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 9 (OVERLAPS) 52/709 variables, 1/670 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 10 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/709 variables, 52/722 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 11 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/709 variables, 0/722 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 12 (OVERLAPS) 909/1618 variables, 709/1431 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 13 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/1618 variables, 2/1433 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 14 (INCLUDED_ONLY) 0/1618 variables, 0/1433 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
At refinement iteration 15 (OVERLAPS) 0/1618 variables, 0/1433 constraints. Problems are: Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
No progress, stopping.
After SMT solving in domain Int declared 1618/1618 variables, and 1433 constraints, problems are : Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved in 3609 ms.
Refiners :[Domain max(s): 709/709 constraints, Positive P Invariants (semi-flows): 11/11 constraints, Generalized P Invariants (flows): 1/1 constraints, State Equation: 709/709 constraints, PredecessorRefiner: 4/4 constraints, Known Traps: 1/1 constraints, Known Traps Along Path: 0/0 constraints]
After SMT, in 6614ms problems are : Problem set: 3 solved, 4 unsolved
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-06 TRUE TECHNIQUES PARIKH_WALK
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-11 TRUE TECHNIQUES PARIKH_WALK
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-12 FALSE TECHNIQUES PARIKH_WALK
Finished Parikh walk after 83 steps, including 0 resets, run visited all 1 properties in 1 ms. (steps per millisecond=83 )
FORMULA CO4-PT-15-ReachabilityFireability-2024-15 FALSE TECHNIQUES PARIKH_WALK
Parikh walk visited 4 properties in 609 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 8821 ms.

BK_STOP 1779523745106

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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-15"
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-15, 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-177946967700399"
echo "====================================================================="
echo
echo "--------------------"
echo "preparation of the directory to be used:"

tar xzf /home/mcc/BenchKit/INPUTS/CO4-PT-15.tgz
mv CO4-PT-15 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 ;