Bug 216055 - LSPP: newrole doesn't preserve shell exit status
Summary: LSPP: newrole doesn't preserve shell exit status
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: policycoreutils
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-17 00:04 UTC by Amy Griffis
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RC
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-02-08 00:32:17 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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patch (655 bytes, patch)
2006-11-17 00:04 UTC, Amy Griffis 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Amy Griffis 2006-11-17 00:04:17 UTC 
Description of problem:

When newrole exits, it doesn't preserve the exit status from the shell. It
always returns 0 (or -1 for an error in newrole).

It should return the exit status of the child unless there is an error in newrole.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. newrole -r 
2. exit 42
3. echo $?
  
Actual results:
0

Expected results:
42

Additional info:
I attached a patch for newrole.c which will fix this.
Comment 1 Amy Griffis 2006-11-17 00:04:17 UTC 
Created attachment 141427 [details]
patch
Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2006-11-28 15:15:57 UTC 
Fixed in policycoreutils-1.33.4-2.el5
Comment 3 Jay Turner 2007-01-11 03:38:35 UTC 
QE ack for RHEL5.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2007-02-08 00:32:17 UTC 
A package has been built which should help the problem described in 
this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution 
of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does 
not work for you.
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