From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tests: make test_must_fail more verbose
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831193515.GV2315@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100831180618.GB15020@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:10:55PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Can the exit status (e.g. from a shell function) be negative?
>
> I don't believe so. Both bash and dash complain about "return -1" (and
> POSIX says the number must be "an unsigned decimal integer").
Thanks for checking; missed that. It is clearer in POSIX that the
exit status from an external command will be truncated to an 8-bit
unsigned integer, which as you say is the most important thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-31 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-31 14:49 [PATCH 0/2] fix quotes in maint-reflog-beyond-horizon and detached-stash Jon Seymour
2010-08-31 14:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] maint-reflog-beyond-horizon: fix broken test_must_fail calls Jon Seymour
2010-08-31 14:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] detached-stash: " Jon Seymour
2010-08-31 15:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix quotes in maint-reflog-beyond-horizon and detached-stash Jeff King
2010-08-31 15:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] tests: make test_must_fail more verbose Jeff King
2010-08-31 17:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 18:06 ` Jeff King
2010-08-31 19:35 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-09-01 3:37 ` Jon Seymour
2010-09-01 10:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] tests: make test_must_fail fail on missing commands Jeff King
2010-08-31 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-31 17:25 ` Jeff King
2010-08-31 17:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 18:08 ` Jeff King
2010-08-31 18:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 17:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix quotes in maint-reflog-beyond-horizon and detached-stash Junio C Hamano
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