According to POSIX, the status of . shall be 0 if no command was executed during the sourced script. Therefore, this is a bug: $ dash -c 'false; . /dev/null; echo $?' 1 and should be fixed to output 0. -- Eric Blake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html