On 8/23/14, 6:56 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 24 > Release Status: release > > Description: > > When a pipeline starting with "!" is run in background, bash sets $? > to 1 instead of 0. POSIX says: > > The exit status of an asynchronous list shall be zero.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash. 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/