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

[Pádraig Brady]

On 30/05/10 01:15, Ángel González wrote:
> 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.

Thanks very much for the patch.
At first thought it seems like a very unusual use case.
Can you describe your use in a bit more detail to
help us determine if this is generally useful.

cheers,
Pádraig.