Update of bug #68064 (group groff):

                  Status:               Need Info => None
             Assigned to:                    barx => None

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Follow-up Comment #14:

[comment #13 comment #13:]
> I erred by piping nroff's output through "cat -s",

If that is indeed an error, it's originally mine.

> which in a POSIX shell conceals any erroneous exit status from nroff.

But we're not testing the exit status of nroff, we're testing the value of the
systat register.  In fact, all tests in this ticket have ignored the exit
status of nroff.

> $ cat ATTIC/bad-sy.groff
> .sy exit 2
> .tm command exited with status \n[systat]

As comment #2 points out, using .tm obscures the bug.


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