Package: mksh
Version: 38.3-1
Severity: normal

    mkdir tmp
    mksh tmp

    => No error messages, no status code $? to signify an error.

Please signal an error and terminate on non-zero exit code.
An example from Bash:

   bash tmp
   tmp/: tmp/: is a directory

C.f. This bug was found from other shells as well (posh, dash). See
e.g. how posh fixed it in version 0.8
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548688

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mksh depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libbsd0                       0.1.6-1    utility functions from BSD systems
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

mksh recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mksh suggests:
ii  ed                            1.4-1      The classic UNIX line editor

-- debconf information excluded



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