Problems with csh

[Mark Waterhouse]

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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