Re: shell errexit and exit status

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Monday 06 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:22:51PM CEST:
> > What about my pending patch "Testsuite: use $SHELL to run tests
> > which are shell scripts."?
> 
> I'll reply in that thread.
> 
> > That should ensure that the tests are run with
> > a decent shell.  Maybe we could then hack Automake's configure.ac
> > to ensure that configure reject shells exhibiting the trap bug. 
> > What is the status of ksh on Tru64/OSF 5.1?  Is it as broek
Ehm...  s/broek/broken/, sorry.
> > as /bin/sh, or is it usable for our purposes?
> 
> It does not have this particular issue.  And yes, that might be a
> good strategy indeed; but it shouldn't be developed in the
> pot-primary branch (only maybe merged in later).
I agree, and I wasn't proposing to do so.  Especially considering that 
the particular patch we were reviewing in this sub-thread is to be 
dropped as useless.

Regards,
  Stefano