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Re: NetBSD test results: AS_EXIT failure


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: NetBSD test results: AS_EXIT failure
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:38:11 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:56:27AM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/13/2009 3:37 PM:
> > I agree; I'll file a report once I'm through checking that it's not
> > already reported (there are several 'set -e'-related bugs there).
> > 
> > As to how to skip the test, how about this patch?
> 
> Looks good; please apply.

Thanks, done (with s/4/3/g; that was a testing leftover; sorry).

> By the way, does something like:
> 
> trap 's=$? && set +e; echo $s; as_fn_exit' 0
> 
> behave any better?  Maybe the problem is that when set -e is in effect,
> and the first command of the EXIT trap is a shell builtin, that the shell
> remembers the non-zero status inherited prior to entrance into the trap.

Nope, that doesn't change things.  Sorry, I should have said that I had
tested && and if...fi as first lists of the trap.

Cheers,
Ralf




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