Subject: Re: ash-20040127-3: Invalid behavior of negated pipeline
From: Corinna Vinschen <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Dmitry Semyonov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:40:59 +0200
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On Aug 12 19:36, Dmitry Semyonov wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>  -- begin --
> $ bash -c '! true | false; echo $?'
> 0
> 
> $ ash -c '! true | false; echo $?'
> 1
>  -- end --
> 
> Mostly "if" conditions are affected by this issue.
> 
> Quote[1] from the "Shell Command Language" standard: "If the reserved
> word ! does not precede the pipeline, the exit status shall be the
> exit status of the last command specified in the pipeline. Otherwise,
> the exit status shall be the logical NOT of the exit status of the
> last command. That is, if the last command returns zero, the exit
> status shall be 1; if the last command returns greater than zero, the
> exit status shall be zero."
> 
> [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_09_02
> 
> 
> So, in this particular case, ash is not compliant with the standard,
> nor it is compatible with bash or dash (Debian ash derivative).

Use bash as sh.  ash is only in the distro to run rebaseall.  I won't
release a new version of ash any time soon, if it doesn't explicitely
affect rebase.

Corinna

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