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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:17:03 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sh script problem with capturing return code
Message-ID:  <44y5fvg2o0.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <50F41797.2050001@a1poweruser.com> (fbsd8@a1poweruser.com's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:35:03 -0500")
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Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>> This fixes the problem that was bothering you, but the interactions of
>> different features are complicated, and many of them are documented in
>> fairly loose language.
>>
> Is that the diplomatic way of saying the manpage for mtree sucks, and
> leaves a great deal to be desired?

Not really; I was looking at the code at the time I wrote that. To be
fair, I'm not sure what I would *expect* for some of the possible
interactions. 

> When it comes to testing your patch sure I would like to. But here
> again I have a problem. For security reasons I can not use source code
> to install or update any operating system. I have no sources on my
> system to compile from. I use the fresh install method from a
> downloaded disc1.iso burned to cdrom.

I was thinking you could extend the shell scripts using your existing
mtree executable.




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