khym@azeotrope.org writes:

>that kill -t means "send the signal to the process, and if it hasn't
>exited within the timeout period, send it a KILL signal".

The PID could be reused, then a different process will get the
KILL signal.

I'd rather see a 'runsomethingwithtimeout' command than such a
flag to kill.
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