On 12/12/13, 7:00 PM, Martin Kealey wrote: > Bash Version: 4.2 > Patch Level: 25 > Release Status: release > > Description: > The value of $? after starting a backgrounded command is > inconsistent: > $? is unchanged after starting a sufficiently complex command, but > after starting a simpler command it is set to 0.
Thanks for the report. The exit status of any asynchronous command is 0. I will fix this for bash-4.3-release. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/