Re: Sporadic superfluous successful exits

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aki Helin" <address@hidden>
To: "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: Sporadic superfluous successful exits


> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 02/09/2012 01:35 AM, Aki Helin wrote:
> > > A date just got printed without issues even though
> > > it was matching with Grep that had been patched to crash if it tries
to
> > > exit with 0 from the bottom of main().
> >
> > Sounds like the bug's outside of 'grep', then.
>
> Now it's certain. Another tool doing mainly a bit of IO eventually
> triggered this on a Phenom II X6. Seems like a race or something similar
> in Bash.
>

I am hunting that sort of issue since more than a year but as this is hard
for me to reproduce at will the issue, I haven't done any progress. The
issue happening is the contrary : bash exit like if an error happen when log
on the command show a success. I have a master bash script that run 220
makefiles and sometime even when the makefile log a success message, bash
exit with error as if a failure was reported by make.
The issue is present with bash-4.1.5,4.1.7,4.1.9, 4.2.8 to 4.2.20. I tested
with make-3.81 and 3.82 for later bash releases.

Gilles