GNU bug report logs - #6308
Preserve command exit code in timeout(3)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Ángel González" <keisial <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 00:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Ángel González" <keisial <at> gmail.com>
To: 6308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6308: Preserve command exit code in timeout(3)
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 02:15:20 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
I wanted to keep the original exit status of the command run by
timeout(3), even after sending a timeout signal.
Thus I added a --exit-status parameter to it. Here it is in case you
find that useful, too.


[timeout-exit-status.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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