1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/firejail/sandbox.c b/src/firejail/sandbox.c
index f91e5ab7c..288726d22 100644
--- a/src/firejail/sandbox.c
+++ b/src/firejail/sandbox.c
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ static int monitor_application(pid_t app_pid) {
         if (cfg.timeout) {
                 options = WNOHANG;
                 timeout = cfg.timeout;
+                sleep(1);
         }
 
         int status = 0;
@@ -302,8 +303,11 @@ static int monitor_application(pid_t app_pid) {
                         // handle --timeout
                         if (options) {
                                 if (--timeout == 0)  {
+                                        // SIGTERM might fail if the process ignores it (SIG_IGN)
+                                        // we give it 100ms to close properly and after that we SIGKILL it
                                         kill(-1, SIGTERM);
-                                        sleep(1);
+                                        usleep(100000);
+                                        kill(-1, SIGKILL);
                                         flush_stdin();
                                         _exit(1);
                                 }