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

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:01:42 +0200

Hey.

This time I've also checked the 9.0 documentation (hopefully I wasn't
just too blind).

I noticed that whenever --foreround is used, timeout exits with a 124
status (instead of the documented 128+9) regardless of whether the KILL
is sent because of --signal=KILL or --kill-after=n .

Thanks,
Chris.

btw: I'm sill on Debian sid's 8.32 version of coreutils.