bug#41634: closed ('timeout' returning 124 and 133)

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Your message dated Sun, 7 Jun 2020 15:45:27 +0200
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and subject line Re: bug#41634: 'timeout' returning 124 and 133
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #41634,
regarding 'timeout' returning 124 and 133
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> 'timeout' returning 124 and 133
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> Sun, 31 May 2020 22:22:47 +0100
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>     Hello
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>       I'm using timeout with another program that doesn't have a timeout
>       mechanism. Saw surprisingly timeout often returns 124
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>       I was a bit surprised the return code as a signal was not 143
>       (128+ 15) for SIGTERM. I must be missing something.
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>       This article says 124 for SIGTERM, and as expected 137 for SIGKILL
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> https://www.howtogeek.com/423286/how-to-use-the-timeout-command-on-linux/
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>       The man page says "Start COMMAND, and kill it if still running
>       after DURATION.", it sounds like it's doing 'kill -s 
>     SIGTERM' after DURATION. Then if -k argument
>         it is doing 'kill -s SIGKILL'
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>       Could the 124 and 137 be documented on the man page?
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>       Regards, Jonny
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> Sun, 7 Jun 2020 15:45:27 +0200
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> On 2020-06-07 15:34, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > [...] it is better to add the comma there [...]
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> thanks, pushed with that change:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=189776ff3b
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> Marking this as done.
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> Have a nice day,
> Berny
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