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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-04-09 22:04:21 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-04-09 22:13:52 +0100
commitd2980924ac05bbee579bd71e551128f3b02327f1 (patch)
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downloadcoreutils-d2980924ac05bbee579bd71e551128f3b02327f1.tar.xz
maint: document timeout --preserve-status in v8.21 NEWS
* NEWS: Add the omitted new feature. * cfk.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Adjust accordingly.
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@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
with such a minimum SIZE (or a maximum SIZE if it is negative).
du recognizes -t SIZE as equivalent, for compatibility with FreeBSD.
+ timeout now accepts the --preserve-status option to always propagate the exit
+ status, useful for commands that can run for an indeterminite amount of time.
+
** Bug fixes
cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer exits non-zero.