Re: inconsistent $? after &

[dethrophes]

   I thought the value was only 0 if the fork/spawn was succesful.

   i.e. if it fails for lack of resources or something it's non zero.

   or have I miss understood it's significance?

   From: Chet Ramey
   Sent: Samstag, 14. Dezember 2013 05:05
   To: Martin Kealey
   Reply To: chet.ramey@case.edu
   Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; bash@packages.debian.org; chet.ramey@case.edu
   Subject: Re: inconsistent $? after &

   On 12/12/13, 7:00 PM, Martin Kealey wrote:
   > Bash Version: 4.2
   > Patch Level: 25
   > Release Status: release
   >
   > Description:
   > The value of $? after starting a backgrounded command is
   > inconsistent:
   > $? is unchanged after starting a sufficiently complex command, but
   > after starting a simpler command it is set to 0.
   Thanks for the report. The exit status of any asynchronous command is
   0.
   I will fix this for bash-4.3-release.
   Chet
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