From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 03:16:23 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: timeout: print the signal number 0 instead of EXIT
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timeout: print the signal number 0 instead of EXIT

POSIX.1-2024 added sig2str but leaves the behavior when called with
signal 0 unspecified. FreeBSD 15.0 does not return the signal name EXIT
like Gnulib's version causing a test failure. This fixes that and
changes the behavior to print 0 instead of EXIT, to avoid confusion when
the program does not exit.

* NEWS: Mention the change.
* src/timeout.c (cleanup): Use snprintf instead of sig2str if the signal
is 0.
* tests/timeout/timeout.sh: Updated the expected output.
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 445e8fb4a0..127d70ae08 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   timeout(1) in a shell backgrounded job, will not terminate upon receiving
   SIGINT or SIGQUIT, as these are ignored by default in shell background jobs.
 
+  'timeout -v -s 0' now prints the signal number 0 instead of EXIT.
+
 ** Improvements
 
   csplit, ls, and sort, now handle a more complete set of terminating signals.
diff --git a/src/timeout.c b/src/timeout.c
index 3303b57786..017078286a 100644
--- a/src/timeout.c
+++ b/src/timeout.c
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ cleanup (int sig)
       if (verbose)
         {
           char signame[MAX (SIG2STR_MAX, INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (int))];
-          if (sig2str (sig, signame) != 0)
+          if (sig == 0 || sig2str (sig, signame) != 0)
             snprintf (signame, sizeof signame, "%d", sig);
           error (0, 0, _("sending signal %s to command %s"),
                  signame, quote (command));
diff --git a/tests/timeout/timeout.sh b/tests/timeout/timeout.sh
index c7d8a2906f..3aaed93a72 100755
--- a/tests/timeout/timeout.sh
+++ b/tests/timeout/timeout.sh
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ test "$out" = "" && test $status = 124 || fail=1
 
 # Verify --verbose output
 cat > exp <<\EOF
-timeout: sending signal EXIT to command 'sleep'
+timeout: sending signal 0 to command 'sleep'
 timeout: sending signal KILL to command 'sleep'
 EOF
 for opt in -v --verbose; do