Matthias Klose wrote:
> matthieu castet writes:
>
>>Package: bash
>>Version: 3.0-14
>>Severity: normal
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Bash accept negative exit status, I don't now if it is normal (dash or
>>posh don't accept it.)
>>
>>But even if there are accepted, the return value is wrong :
>>$ bash -c "exit -1"; echo $?
>>255
>>
>>bash -c "exit -10"; echo $?
>>246
>
>
> I don't see anything, why this should be disallowed, the behaviour is
> the same as in zsh. The exit status is anded with 0377, see exit(3).
There's no bug here.
Chet
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