On 06/06/2020 00:37, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 2020-06-01 10:01, Jonny Grant wrote:
>> My mistake missing that. But could the 137 be listed explicitly?
>> ie.
>> "It may be  necessary  to  use the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught, in which case the exit status is
>> 137 (128+9) rather than 124."
> 
> thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> I think this could still be improved:
> there is still the open question what happens when the KILL signal
> is sent either to timeout(1) or to COMMAND.
> The attached patch tries to clarify.

Thanks for improving that Bernhard.

It's generally easier to scan tables of values, than blocks of text.
How about we add the exit code table to the man page also?
I've adjusted your patch to do that (along with some other tweaks) in the attached.

cheers,
Pádraig