From: Risto J Laitinen <rjl@bacchus.math.jyu.fi>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Zsh reporting bad return status of commands
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:52:35 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199701291252.OAA27397@bacchus.math.jyu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25218.199701281713@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk writes:
> Clint Olsen wrote:
> >Interesting. Then it must be broken on SunOS since it is also set there
> >but it doesn't print out the bad exit status.
> ...
> >pdxgp1 ~# ls /foo
> >/foo not found
>
> No, it's just that the native ls on SunOS (and Solaris) returns an exit
> code of 0 under these circumstances. A bug in ls? It wouldn't be the
> first one.
It's just the BSD variant of ls that returns 0:
kanto% uname -a
SunOS kanto 5.4 Generic_101945-41 sun4m sparc
kanto% /usr/bin/ls /foo; echo $?
/foo: No such file or directory
2
kanto% /usr/ucb/ls /foo; echo $?
/foo not found
0
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-01-29 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-27 22:15 Clint Olsen
1997-01-28 14:58 ` Zefram
1997-01-28 16:56 ` Clint Olsen
1997-01-28 17:13 ` Zefram
1997-01-29 12:52 ` Risto J Laitinen [this message]
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