On 4/1/2010 7:49 AM, phoenix wrote: > Hey guys, > I've found a serious error in the program "false": If I pipe some text to it > (e.g. echo "i lost the game" | false), it does not fail but rather returns a > success. Any suggestions? I need this program very much for completing my > thesis on Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. > It would very kind of you if you'd inform me when the error has been fixed. > (Remark: I am using Ubuntu 9.10.) > Best regards, > Hajo Pei
You must be checking it wrong because on Ubuntu 9.10 here it correctly returns an exit status of 1 for failure.
