[debbugs-tracker] bug#6308: closed (Preserve command exit code in timeout(3))

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Preserve command exit code in timeout(3) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 02:15:20 +0200 User-agent: Thunderbird

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
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#6308: Preserve command exit code in timeout(3) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:56:30 +0000 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1

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.

timeout--preserve-status.diff
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