From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:24:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t/test-lib.sh: support Korn shell by converting GIT_EXIT_OK to GIT_EXIT_CODE
Message-ID: <m2eipbphbr.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20091010120121.GA16336@localhost>

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.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."