Bug 180730

Summary: col is exiting with 1... but why? expecting 0.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Anthony Green <green>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Fix for return code from col none

Description Anthony Green 2006-02-09 21:23:31 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I found this while trying to rebuild my kawa package in Extras.

$ echo Foo | col -b
Foo
$ echo $?
1

col exits with 0 on FC4.  I had a quick look at col.c and it's not obvious to me why we're exiting with 1 instead of 0.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux-2.13-0.14

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "echo Foo | col -b" and check the exit code.
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Additional info:
Comment 1 John Ellson 2006-02-21 19:55:03 UTC 
Created attachment 124979 [details]
Fix for return code from col
Comment 2 John Ellson 2006-02-21 20:07:35 UTC 
This is broken in FC4 too.    It broke a cgi-bin/man script on our web server
that was doing:   man $topic | col -b
Comment 3 Anthony Green 2006-02-21 20:56:17 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=124979) [edit]
> Fix for return code from col

Thanks John! 

Karel - it would be great to get this fix into rawhide.  It's blocking one of my
Extras contributions from building as-is.

AG
Comment 4 Karel Zak 2006-02-21 21:12:36 UTC 
Ah.. this is my bug. Sorry. I'll fix it ASAP. Thanks for the patch.
Comment 5 John Ellson 2006-02-25 14:18:48 UTC 
Why hasn't this fix been distributed yet?    It causes failures
in many old stable shell scripts and the bug exists in FC4 and Rawhide.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2006-02-27 16:35:53 UTC 
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

util-linux-2.12p-9.14 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Anthony Green 2006-02-27 16:49:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> util-linux-2.12p-9.14 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this
issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make
note of it in this bug report.

What about rawhide, where I originally reported the problem?