diff --git a/lxc/executors/c b/lxc/executors/c
index 9800c05..b993915 100755
--- a/lxc/executors/c
+++ b/lxc/executors/c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 runuser runner$1 -c "\
     cd /tmp/$2 ; \
-    timeout -s KILL 10 gcc -std=c11 -o binary -x c code.code \
+    timeout -s KILL 10 gcc -std=c11 -o binary -x c code.code ; \
     cat args.args | xargs -d '\n' timeout -s KILL 3 ./binary"