Hi Phil, On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 02:44:09PM +0200, Štěpán Němec wrote: > > POSIX [1] does not specify the behavior of `exit' with arguments > > outside the 0-255 range, but what generally (bash, dash, zsh, OpenBSD > > ksh, busybox) seems to happen is the shell exiting with status & 255 > > [2], which results in zero exit for certain non-zero arguments. > > Standards aside, failed=256 is an actual bug: > > | % bash -c "exit 255"; echo $? > | 255 > | % bash -c "exit 256"; echo $? > | 0 > | % bash -c "exit 257"; echo $? > | 1 This is extra information you provided here for the commit message for completion? Thanks.
