begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:16:59PM -0700: > > On Tue, March 25, 2008 3:09 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: [chop] > > Are you *sure* Tcl works that way? Is there no way to change that? I > > find it hard to believe given that Expect is a Tcl thing. Such behavior > > has to have bitten people pretty badly at various points. > > I said the tcl script aborts with traceback. I said nothing about the > called program. Presumably (if it was written right) it won't even send > error codes until it's quite done with its own business.
If by "send error codes" you mean "write to stderr", I disagree. There's a reason that stderr is unbuffered. -- Don't make the user wait to find out that something has gone wrong. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
