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

[Pádraig Brady]

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.

thanks,
Pádraig.