Bug 3650

Summary:	bug in /sbin/rc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Felix von Leitner <felix-gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/sbin/rc?rev=1.24&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
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Description Felix von Leitner 2002-06-11 19:34:18 UTC

/sbin/rc contains the function try.  This function does:

local errstr="$((eval $*) 2>&1 >/dev/null)"

retval=$?



in this code, retval will _always_ be 0, because local is a command that never fails.  So the error handling code below it is never executed.  Solution: first do local errstr and then do the assignment in the next line.

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-12 06:13:56 UTC

Updated in cvs. Thanks.