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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:07:04 +0000
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Subject: Re: [Brian May] zsh random behaviour
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Comments: In reply to Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
 "[Brian May] zsh random behaviour" (Jul 11, 11:32am)
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On Jul 11, 11:32am, Brian May wrote:
}
} Is a return value of 255 treated specially by zsh?

A return value > 127 is interpreted as "killed by a signal" where the
signal number is the return value minus 127.  This is pretty standard
for shells, though not well-documented by any of them.

} I was about to start pulling my hair out, but I will let you pull your
} hair out instead <grin>.

See the "subtle 'echo' bug" thread from last month in the zsh-workers
archive, finishing with the patch in article 21391.