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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net,
	Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t/test-lib.sh: support Korn shell by converting GIT_EXIT_OK to GIT_EXIT_CODE
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:24:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2eipbphbr.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091010120121.GA16336@localhost> (Clemens Buchacher's message of "Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:01:21 +0200")

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
>
>> For the Korn shell, $? has the value of the last executed statement
>> _before_ the call to exit.
>
> I just installed ksh/stable (version 93s+ 2008-01-31) on Debian and it
> behaves correctly. Maybe you need to upgrade? This really looks like a bug
> in your shell to me.

According to the autoconf docs this bug is also present in the Solaris
/bin/sh (and autoconf generated scripts use some elaborated workaround).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-10 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-09 18:39 [PATCH 1/2] t/test-lib.sh: support Korn shell by converting GIT_EXIT_OK to GIT_EXIT_CODE Brandon Casey
2009-10-09 18:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: use the native (Korn) shell on SunOS and IRIX/IRIX64 Brandon Casey
2009-10-09 19:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] t/test-lib.sh: support Korn shell by converting GIT_EXIT_OK to GIT_EXIT_CODE Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 20:01   ` Jonathan Nieder
2009-10-09 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-09 22:37   ` Brandon Casey
2009-10-10  0:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-10 12:01 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-10-10 12:24   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-10-10 12:53     ` Ben Walton
2009-10-10 14:03       ` Jeff King

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