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Revision tags: release/12.4.0, release/13.1.0, release/12.3.0
# c1c3ef8e 21-Oct-2021 Mateusz Piotrowski <[email protected]>

timeout.1: Fix typos in examples

MFC after: 3 days

(cherry picked from commit 12615938c6e0bc3ca7604a8b0614ff23d9964370)


Revision tags: release/13.0.0, release/12.2.0
# 2fe5e736 07-Jul-2020 Fernando Apesteguía <[email protected]>

timeout(1): Add EXAMPLES section

Small EXAMPLES section showing the use of -s, -k and the different exit values

Approved by: manpages (gbe)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25575


Revision tags: release/11.4.0, release/12.1.0, release/11.3.0, release/12.0.0, release/11.2.0
# beb87f64 29-Mar-2018 Conrad Meyer <[email protected]>

timeout.1: Try to improve clarity

Minor rewordings, markup fixes or enhancements, and some typo fixes. Add a few
sentences clarifying the special zero duration.

PR: 227012
Submitted by: Mateusz P

timeout.1: Try to improve clarity

Minor rewordings, markup fixes or enhancements, and some typo fixes. Add a few
sentences clarifying the special zero duration.

PR: 227012
Submitted by: Mateusz Piotrowski (0mp@) (earlier version)

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Revision tags: release/10.4.0, release/11.1.0
# 7ad0d03d 21-Feb-2017 Bryan Drewery <[email protected]>

Make it more clear that -k sends SIGKILL, not the -s signal.

MFC after: 1 week


# 02db5d1d 17-Feb-2017 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>

Use full name for the month

Reported by: brueffer


# 0150ca69 17-Feb-2017 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>

Also add vsevolod@ in the authors


# 9a00b6c8 17-Feb-2017 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>

Add history and Authors section in the manpage

Submitted by: dteske
MFC after: 2 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9419


Revision tags: release/11.0.1, release/11.0.0, release/10.3.0, release/10.2.0, release/10.1.0
# 54c2e464 28-Oct-2014 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>

Improve compatibility with GNU timeout

According to the coreutils regression testsuite for timeout(1)
It is expect to exit with a status being:
125 in case an invalid duration or signal is passed in

Improve compatibility with GNU timeout

According to the coreutils regression testsuite for timeout(1)
It is expect to exit with a status being:
125 in case an invalid duration or signal is passed in arguments
126 in case an invalid command is passed in arguments
127 in case the command passed in arguments does not exists.

While here document this behaviour in the man page

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# 56793850 18-Jul-2014 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>

Improve timeout(1) man page

Document the exit values and the duration format
Improve wording
Pet mandoc -Tlint
Sort SEE ALSO

Phabric: https://phabric.freebsd.org/D432
Reviewed by: wblock


# a2072d9e 16-Jul-2014 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>

Fix typo


# 42148fc4 16-Jul-2014 Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>

New BSDL timeout(1) utility compatible with GNU timeout

it fully passes the GNU timeout regression tests, it is written in a mostly
portable way (only signal parsing is relying on non portable struc

New BSDL timeout(1) utility compatible with GNU timeout

it fully passes the GNU timeout regression tests, it is written in a mostly
portable way (only signal parsing is relying on non portable structures)

Phabric: D377

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