Re: Backquotes in quotes in backquotes (Was: Success (mostly) withthe testsuite)

[Daniele Arena]

Wonderful!

I think you're close to the edge, Akim...

tcsh:
% (false); echo $?
255
% (false; exit); echo $?
0

bash:
$ (false); echo $?
1
$ (false; exit); echo $?
1

sh:
$ (false); echo $?
255
$ (false; exit); echo $?
255

Good luck with that...;)

Cheers,

D.


On 30 Nov 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Still on the same Solaris machine:
> 
> (false; exit); echo $?
> 
> It seems that some of your troubles are due to a bad propagation of
> config.status' failures to configure.
>