On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 9:11 AM Warner Losh <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: imp > Date: Tue Sep 1 16:11:23 2020 > New Revision: 365052 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365052 > > Log: > Have script accept and ignore -e for Linux compat > > In the util-linux version of script, it will always exit with succes. > Except when run with -e, in which case it will have the exit value of > the child. BSD Script already uses the child's exit value for its exit > value. Some config and other helper scripts depend on being able to > specify -e. Accept it for compatibility since we'll already to the > right thing, but otherwise we ignore it. > > What kind of usage is not currently portable but becomes portable as a result of this change? I thought the BSD and GNU syntax was inherently pretty different, e.g., with '-c' for the command to run vs. implicit positional arguments, and would love to be able to retrain myself to something that works everywhere...
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