Re: [Help-bash] catching read error conditions

[Mart Frauenlob]

On 28.01.2013 16:59, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/28/13 8:32 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > Well, any of the ways of testing the exit status should suffice.
> > Also note that you can't distinguish a failure-due-to-timeout from
> > other kinds of failures.
>
> Not quite true.  The manual says:
>
> "The exit status is greater than 128 if the timeout is exceeded."
>
> That does narrow the error space.

I observed an exit status of 142 if I remember correctly.
Is that consistent over bash versions 3+ ?
Could I rely on that for catching the evidence of timeout?