Hi, On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: > For the Korn shell, $? has the value of the last executed statement > _before_ the call to exit. I just installed ksh/stable (version 93s+ 2008-01-31) on Debian and it behaves correctly. Maybe you need to upgrade? This really looks like a bug in your shell to me. > die () { > code=$? > - if test -n "$GIT_EXIT_OK" > + if test -n "$GIT_EXIT_CODE" > then > - exit $code > + exit $GIT_EXIT_CODE > else > echo >&5 "FATAL: Unexpected exit with code $code" > exit 1 > fi > } So in your shell an unexpected exit will always output this? FATAL: Unexpected exit with code <some command> If we can't rely on the value of $?, we should not use it. Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html