Problems with csh

[Carl Boberg]

Hi,

I get result 0 on my RH9/FC4/RHEL3/RHEL4 boxes ... 
So I guess it could be local to your install.

/ Carl

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Mark Waterhouse
> Sent: den 26 juli 2006 13:22
> To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Problems with csh
> 
> Has anyone got any thoughts on this problem?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Waterhouse" <mark at dfk-systems.com>
> To: <redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:09 PM
> Subject: Problems with csh
> 
> 
> > Hi all
> >
> > A user on our campus has discovered a small bug within csh 
> that I would 
> > like to share with the community; predominately to confirm 
> if this is a 
> > bug and, if it, to see what you all think.
> >
> > My user is trying to capture the exit status of csh when 
> running against a 
> > certain internal script.
> > For the sake of completeness, I've created a very small 
> script which does 
> > nothing but echo a string.
> >
> > The script, called 'test', looks like this;
> > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ cat test
> > echo $status
> > echo DFK
> > echo $status
> >
> > On each machine that I tested this on (Centos/FC3/FC1), I 
> get an output of 
> > "1".
> > On the FreeBSD, Solaris and SuSE boxes, I get the correct output.
> >
> > Do you think this is a bug?
> > fwiw, I noticed that on the Centos/FCx/RHEL boxes, /bin/csh 
> is symlinked 
> > to /bin/tcsh. Ah....except that the same is true for SuSE.
> >
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > Centos 3.6
> > [sysadmin at ns02 sysadmin]$ csh
> > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ csh -e test
> > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ echo $status
> > 1
> >
> > Fedora Core 3
> > [root at webhost ~]$ csh
> > [root at webhost ~]$ csh -e test
> > [root at webhost ~]$ echo $status
> > 1
> >
> > Fedora Core 1
> > [mark at secure mark]$ csh
> > [mark at secure ~]# csh -e test
> > [mark at secure ~]# echo $status
> > 1
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
> >> csh
> > %csh -e test
> > 0
> > DFK
> > 0
> > %echo $status
> > 0
> >
> > Solaris 2.6 (5.6)
> > # csh
> > noo-noo# csh -e test
> > 0
> > DFK
> > 0
> > noo-noo# echo $status
> > 0
> >
> > SuSE Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64)
> > octopus % 24 : csh
> > octopus % 21 : csh -e test
> > 0
> > DFK
> > 0
> > octopus % 22 : echo $status
> > 0 
> 
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