Subject: Re: /bin/sh bug or not?
To: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/11/1995 11:05:00
[ On Wed, May 10, 1995 at 19:53:31 (-0400), Kenneth Stailey wrote: ]
> Subject: /bin/sh bug or not?
>
> tulloh@dev.tivoli.com (Robert Tulloh) writes:
> 
> > Well, I have run across something else that looks suspicious in NetBSD
> > sh and I wanted to run it past you. Take the expression:
> > 
> >         i=`false`
> > 
> > Under AIX ksh, this expression will set return code to 1.
> > Under SunOS sh, this expression will set return code to 255.
> > Under SunOS bash, this expression will set return code to 255.

Hmmm....  On SunOS-4.1.3, 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4 /usr/bin/sh sets $? to 1.

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