Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 14:37:16 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r365052 - head/usr.bin/script Message-ID: <CANCZdfqz-fBdtLxEXRwtQyQe8KwXznnZxFo13ynJ%2B=-LptivPQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5_RoACjVH3EG=FJDsvOc0czRWJxjnPW8saRWn99LSriXEcvg@mail.gmail.com> References: <202009011611.081GBN9M025984@repo.freebsd.org> <CAJ5_RoACjVH3EG=FJDsvOc0czRWJxjnPW8saRWn99LSriXEcvg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 10:18 AM Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 9:11 AM Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Author: imp >> Date: Tue Sep 1 16:11:23 2020 >> New Revision: 365052 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365052 >> >> Log: >> Have script accept and ignore -e for Linux compat >> >> In the util-linux version of script, it will always exit with succes. >> Except when run with -e, in which case it will have the exit value of >> the child. BSD Script already uses the child's exit value for its exit >> value. Some config and other helper scripts depend on being able to >> specify -e. Accept it for compatibility since we'll already to the >> right thing, but otherwise we ignore it. >> >> > What kind of usage is not currently portable but becomes portable as a > result > of this change? I thought the BSD and GNU syntax was inherently pretty > different, > e.g., with '-c' for the command to run vs. implicit positional arguments, > and would > love to be able to retrain myself to something that works everywhere... > -c is also in my queue :). Warner >
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