RE: Dpkg for Hurd
> > * The Hurd does not return correct error status. A call to
> exit() ever
> > returns exit status 1. This is bad! because dpkg calls
> subprocesses
> > extensively and will stop working when they seem to fail.
> > In exit(int status), status is de-facto ignored (set to 1).
> > Therefore, dpkg --build fails, because it calls dpkg-deb,
> which returns
> > with exit().
> > FIX: Let dpkg ignore error status. I tried this in lib/mlib.c:
> > n = WEXITSTATUS (status);
> > if ((n != 0) && (n != 1)) {
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ohshit (_("subprocess %s terminated with error status %d"),
> > description, n);
> >
> > It *seemed* to work.
>
> Shudder.
>
> If statements in #!/bin/sh scripts won't work properly till this
> is fixed. && and || will be useless as well. Installations won't
> be reliable, and it will be pure luck (or a lot of manual work) if
> you manage to install a working system.
>
> --
> Raul
>
This is a serious issue. I think we need some feedback from bug-hurd
folks as to whether this is a desirable choice for some reason. Is this
a bug in their implementation of sh or bash? Or is it imbedded in glibc
somewhere?
-Brent
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