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

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 51135 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51135: timeout: --foreground causes exit status 124, even if KILL was used
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 03:55:03 +0200

Thinking again about this:

Don't you think one looses quite something if, with --foreground, one
cannot differ (via the exit status) between a timeout that allowed the
program to clean up and one (when KILLing) that didn't?


Even if the KILL happens via killing timeout itself, couldn't it just
return 128+9 in the case --foreground was enabled and the original
signal had already been sent?
Or is that technically not possible then?
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