Hey.
This time I've also checked the 9.0 documentation (hopefully I wasn't just too blind). I noticed that whenever --foreround is used, timeout exits with a 124 status (instead of the documented 128+9) regardless of whether the KILL is sent because of --signal=KILL or --kill-after=n . Thanks, Chris. btw: I'm sill on Debian sid's 8.32 version of coreutils.