Re: Wait Until Process Completion
Re: Wait Until Process Completion
- Subject: Re: Wait Until Process Completion
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:29:31 -0400
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Christopher Nebel <email@hidden> wrote:
> Actually, "do shell script" has always propagated errors like that. The
> difference is that ps(1) in Leopard returns a status of 1 if you use -p with
> a non-existent pid, where it returned 0 in Tiger.
Interesting. I thought that ps(1) had always returned 1 when asked to
display a nonexistent PID; then again, my experience is primarily with
SysV-derived systems.
Without specific knowledge to the contrary, I would assume that any
command that lets you say "show me information about this particular
X" would exit with nonzero status, usually 1, if that particular X
doesn't exist. But I see that still on Leopard, that's not even true
of ls(1)!
(0)wazowski:~/Desktop> ls asdf
ls: asdf: No such file or directory
(0)wazowski:~/Desktop>
That (0) in my command prompt is the exit status of the last
command... compare with the results on a Linux system:
(0)box28:~> ls asdf
/bin/ls: asdf: No such file or directory
(1)box28:~>
I go file a bug onw.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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