Hi Pablo, On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:09:23AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > > 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? No need to extend the commit message IMO. I was just curious and played a bit with exit values in bash. So although unlikely, the unpatched code indeed confuses a result of 256 errors for a pass. :) Cheers, Phil
