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doc: timeout --kill-after: clarify disabled timeouts

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* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Clarify
that -k is ignored if either its duration or the
main timeout duration is 0.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/51128
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Pádraig Brady
2021-10-12 14:47:44 +01:00
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@@ -18273,8 +18273,9 @@ The specified @var{duration} starts from the point in time when
@command{timeout} sends the initial signal to @var{command}, i.e.,
not from the beginning when the @var{command} is started.
This option has no effect if @command{timeout}'s duration is 0 which
disables the associated timeout.
This option has no effect if either the main @var{duration}
of the @command{timeout} command, or the @var{duration} specified
to this option, is 0.
This option may be useful if the selected signal did not kill the @var{command},
either because the signal was blocked or ignored, or if the @var{command} takes