[Bug 10571] busybox timeout options is not compatible with coreutils timeout

[bugzilla at busybox.net]

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10571

--- Comment #1 from Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.net> ---
It's more than just the missing options.

coreutils timeout seems to require --foreground, when the command wants to read
from the tty,... busybox' doesn't (it's able to do so with no action).


Should anyone ever do something in this area than please note that coreutils'
exit statuses and options are quite special in some cases:

--kill-after=0
means actually: send no KILL signal (after the initial signal, which still
might be KILL) at all ... and not send it immediately after the initial signal
(see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=51128)


with --foreground, at least as of current coreutils, the exit status is still
124 when a KILL was sent, even though without --forground, 137 would be used
with KILL.
(see https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=51135)

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