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From: Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: coreutils man page
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 15:29:42 +0100

Hello
Just looking at this man page. I appreciate not the latest version. GNU coreutils 8.32    

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html

Could it be clarified that a timeout DURATION of 0 also specifically inhibits the   -k, --kill-after=DURATION  ?
it's implied as "this long after the initial signal was sent", so I'm suggesting to make it clearer.

ie
$ time timeout -k 2 0 sleep 3

real	0m3.005s
user	0m0.004s
sys	0m0.000s



Maybe it could be updated:

-k, --kill-after=DURATION

also send a KILL signal if COMMAND is still running
this long after the initial signal was sent. This
never occurs if the initial signal was inhibited by a
duration of 0


Cheers, Jonny

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