Package: findutils
Version: 4.2.22-2
Severity: normal
xargs exits with the wrong status when the command exits with status 1:
% false; echo $?
1
% echo foo | xargs -t false; echo $?
false foo
0
The exit status ought to be 123, according to the man page:
xargs exits with the following status:
0 if it succeeds
123 if any invocation of the command exited with status 1-125
...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
findutils recommends no packages.
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