Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2002-09-01 Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 03:24:24PM +1000, you wrote:
$ stat a
stat: cannot stat `a': No such file or directory
$ echo $?
0
That sure looks like a bug to me.
Thanks for reporting it.
Here's a patch:
It might be worth mentioning that stat exit status bug was fixed in
a different way in CVS coreutils, I think in the 2004-08-03 patch. At
least I don't observe the bug now. Here's a brief summary of that
patch and a URL:
2004-08-03 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* src/stat.c (G_fail):
