Comment 2 for bug 1409710

Same on CentOS 6.6. if somebody cares:

[openxs@centos bzr2]$ timeout --help
Usage: timeout [OPTION] NUMBER[SUFFIX] COMMAND [ARG]...
  or: timeout [OPTION]
Start COMMAND, and kill it if still running after NUMBER seconds.
SUFFIX may be `s' for seconds (the default), `m' for minutes,
`h' for hours or `d' for days.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -s, --signal=SIGNAL
                   specify the signal to be sent on timeout.
                   SIGNAL may be a name like `HUP' or a number.
                   See `kill -l` for a list of signals
      --help display this help and exit
      --version output version information and exit

If the command times out, then exit with status 124. Otherwise, exit
with the status of COMMAND. If no signal is specified, send the TERM
signal upon timeout. The TERM signal kills any process that does not
block or catch that signal. For other processes, it may be necessary to
use the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught.

Report timeout bugs to <email address hidden>
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'timeout invocation'
[openxs@centos bzr2]$ cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 6.6 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m