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Re: Wait Until Process Completion


  • Subject: Re: Wait Until Process Completion
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:46:14 -0400

Frak.   Shell customization strikes again.  Someday ii'll remember to
try stuff in a new user acct before crying bug...



On 5/13/08, Axel Luttgens <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Le 13 mai 08 à 13:29, Mark J. Reed a écrit :
>
> > 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.
>
> Hello Mark,
>
> Before you file a bug, this is what I get here under 10.5.2, with bash
> as shell:
>
> 	luttgens$ ls adsf; echo $?
> 	ls: adsf: No such file or directory
> 	1
> 	luttgens$
>
> Do our boxes somehow differ?
>
> Axel
>
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