Hey. The timeout(1) manpage says: -k, --kill-after=DURATION also send a KILL signal if COMMAND is still running this long after the initial signal was sent
My naive assumption would have been that --kill-after=0 means that a signal is sent immediately after the original one. However, that doesn't seem to be the case. If intended, this should perhaps at least be mentioned in the manpage :-) Cheers, Chris.