Re: no exit status available when a command doesn't exist or fails in pipe to grep

[arnold]

"Neil R. Ormos" <ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org> wrote:

>
> If the piped command's return code were supplied
> in ERRNO instead of as the return value from
> close(), perhaps that would adequately expose the
> required information without contravening the
> earlier-quoted section of the POSIX spec.

It would need to be another variable, not ERRNO, and I don't think it's
worth the trouble of introducing one.

Unfortunately, it's an area of the language that is poorly specified
and likely will remain so. I don't think I'm going to change anything.
Mainly because I doubt that most people use --posix on a regular basis.

Thanks,

Arnold