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Re: "! true &" sets $? to 1
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: "! true &" sets $? to 1 |
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Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:28:34 -0400 |
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On 8/23/14, 6:56 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 24
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
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> When a pipeline starting with "!" is run in background, bash sets $?
> to 1 instead of 0. POSIX says:
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> The exit status of an asynchronous list shall be zero.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash.
Chet
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