The first patch sent with the bug report did not allow script to fail in the case where the forked command did not exit normally, which makes it of little use if one really needs to detect a failure.
I join two patches, only one of which can be applied (the second is richer in features): * both patches will make 'script -e' return the exit status of the forked command (if there is one) * both patches will make 'script -ee' fail if the forked command does not exit normally (for example if it is killed) * one patch will furthermore make 'script -eee' raise the same signal that killed the forked command, so that script wraps the forked command transparently; for example this will make an interactive shell report the error associated with the signal that killed the forked command This a request for upstream, but it can be applied in Debian only since the change is backward compatible (the behaviour changes only if the -e option is given), and it can be reviewed by the Debian maintainer before being possibly submitted upstream. Regards
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