Subject: Re: bug#51135: timeout: --foreground causes exit status 124, even if KILL was used

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:23:57 +0200

On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 22:20 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> For that use case it's probably best to use --preserve-status,
> in which case the 137 from the child getting the SIGKILL
> will be propagated through.

But wouldn't that make me loose the 124, if COMMAND could actually be
SIGTERMed?