From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:39:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0005: work around strange $? in ksh when program terminated by a signal
Message-ID: <20100709143958.GB1980@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4C36CA2C.5050305@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt wrote:

> ksh is known to report $? of programs that terminated by a signal as
> 256 + signal number instead of 128 + signal number like other POSIX
> compliant shells. (ksh's behavior is still POSIX compliant in this regard.)

This patch works for me.

 $ ksh t0005-signals.sh
 *   ok 1: sigchain works
 * passed all 1 test(s)

Thanks for the explanation.