Sourcing an empty files does not reset exit status

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Hello,

a bug has been filed in the Debian BTS about dash not resetting the exit status after sourcing an empty file with the dot command. [1]

The following test echoes "OK" with bash and "fail" with dash

    #!/bin/sh

    echo > ./empty
    false

    . ./empty && echo "OK" || echo "fail"

A similar bug in dash has been discussed and addressed in 2011 [2], but it looks like the solution has been only partial.

The version of dash I tested is the current git master branch, commit 2e58422.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/777262
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/531

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci <gioele@xxxxxxxxx>

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