Bug 956

Summary:	bash exits with 1 instead of 0.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael G Schwern <schwern>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Michael G Schwern 1999-01-25 06:17:29 UTC

Using bash-1.14.7-11 and bash-1.14.7-13 /bin/bash will exit
with a status of 1 rather than 0.  I believe this is
incorrect behavior.

/bin/bash -c exit;
echo $?

or

if /bin/bash -c exit; then
	echo 'Good'
else
	echo 'Bad'
fi

illustrates the problem.


The problem was noticed when I attempted to configure
perl5.005_03 Trial 3 and it warned me "It would appear you
have a defective bash shell installed...  Upgrading to a
recent version (1.14.4 or later) should fix the problem."

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-03-18 16:38:59 UTC

doing

/bin/bash -c exit;
echo $?

returned a 0 in bash-1.14.7-14.i386.rpm
as reported is the proper way by user.