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Re: gzip zgrep-signal failure on Fedora 15 in an Emacs shell window


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: gzip zgrep-signal failure on Fedora 15 in an Emacs shell window
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:49:45 -0600
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.4 Thunderbird/3.1.15

On 11/02/2011 03:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
+st=$(write_to_dangling_pipe cat f.gz f.gz)
  test "$st" = 141 || framework_failure_ 'signal handling busted on this host'

Another portability concern - with newer ksh, and allowed by POSIX, a child that exits due to a signal causes $? to be 269, not 141.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2011-09/msg00020.html

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