Re: debian patches to exit with code 127 for nonexistent/directory scripts

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On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Herbert Xu wrote:

> Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Debian's dash package has some local changes which cause an exit
> > with code 127, as required by POSIX, if a script (passed with dash
> > <filename>) cannot be opened or cannot be read because it is a
> > directory.

My interpretation of the above is that debian's patched dash is POSIX
compliant WRT the named exit code.

> Please report this through Debian's bug tracking system.

Why?

> There is nothing that I can do about this.

Upstream dash is _not_ POSIX compliant WRT the named exit code, seems
to be the meaning of the sentence.  And you can certainly _do_
something about it.

On the other hand, I may have got it all wrong (because of some
language barrier), in which case please accept my apologies.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian
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