Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote, on 28 Sep 2009:
Clint Adams dixit:
% mksh /tmp/horsies ; echo $?
/tmp/horsies: /tmp/horsies: No such file or directory
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t...@herc:~ $ mksh /tmp/horsies; print $?
/tmp/horsies: /tmp/horsies: No such file or
Geoff Clare dixit:
Clint is right. Look at the synopsis for sh:
Okay, the HTML versions I had were not easy to search.
Then I’ll fix that in mksh, and Clint should file it
with dash too.
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Geoff Clare dixit:
So the 127 exit is required for sh /tmp/horsies if /tmp/horsies could
not be found.
Heh. The source code even *tried* to DTRT, setting exstat to 127,
but the errorf() function doing the actual abortion set it to 1…
fixed.
//mirabilos
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Yay for having to rewrite other
Package: mksh
Version: 38.3-1
% mksh /tmp/horsies ; echo $?
/tmp/horsies: /tmp/horsies: No such file or directory
1
According to SUSv3, the exit code should be 127:
127
A specified command_file could not be found by a non-interactive shell.
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To
Dixi quod:
(as stdin replacement)
More on this:
t...@frozenfish:~ $ mksh
t...@frozenfish:~ $ true x; echo $?
mksh: cannot open x: No such file or directory
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t...@frozenfish:~ $ ^D
t...@frozenfish:~ $ bash
t...@frozenfish:~$ true x; echo $?
bash: x: No such file or directory
1
Clint Adams dixit:
% mksh /tmp/horsies ; echo $?
/tmp/horsies: /tmp/horsies: No such file or directory
1
t...@herc:~ $ mksh /tmp/horsies; print $?
/tmp/horsies: /tmp/horsies: No such file or directory
1
t...@herc:~ $ mksh -c /tmp/horsies; print $?
mksh:
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