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Hi,
Bash accept negative exit status, I don't now if it is normal (dash or
posh don't accept it.)
But even if there are accepted, the return value is wrong :
$ bash -c "exit -1"; echo $?
255
bash -c "exit -10"; echo $?
246
Matthieu
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Chet Ramey writes:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
> > matthieu castet writes:
> >
> >>Package: bash
> >>Version: 3.0-14
> >>Severity: normal
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Bash accept negative exit status, I don't now if it is normal (dash or
> >>posh don't accept it.)
> >>
> >>But even if there are accepted, the return value is wrong :
> >>$ bash -c "exit -1"; echo $?
> >>255
> >>
> >>bash -c "exit -10"; echo $?
> >>246
> >
> >
> > I don't see anything, why this should be disallowed, the behaviour is
> > the same as in zsh. The exit status is anded with 0377, see exit(3).
>
> There's no bug here.
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