bug#6308: Preserve command exit code in timeout(3)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/29/2012 11:10 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 10:07 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > These days, I prefer more expressive option names.  As long as a short
> > prefix is unique, length doesn't really matter.  Here, --p is enough.
> > However, --preserve-status seems ok, too.  There is precedent for
> > using "status" to mean "exit status" with md5sum's --status option.
> > Your call.
>
> I've a slight preference for --preserve-status so.

I'm pushing the attached so marking this done.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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