Bug#900792: xinit and startx both return 0 even if the client returns non-zero
Package: xinit
Version: 1.4.0-1
Severity: normal
I'm working on test suites which are intended to operate within an
ephemeral X11 server. Consider the following two commands (:34 is
chosen randomly, and can be ignored):
xinit /bin/true -- /usr/bin/Xvfb :34
xinit /bin/false -- /usr/bin/Xvfb :34
Both of the above commands return 0 -- the return value of the command
run is ignored.
And it's not just xinit: the same is true for startx.
I think startx and xinit should only return 0 if both the client and
the server return 0. If the server starts and runs successfully, then
the return code of xinit/startx should be the return code of the
client.
--dkg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xinit depends on:
ii coreutils 8.28-1
ii libc6 2.27-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1
ii x11-common 1:7.7+19
ii xauth 1:1.0.10-1
Versions of packages xinit recommends:
ii awesome [x-window-manager] 4.2-5
ii fvwm [x-window-manager] 1:2.6.7-3+b1
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.28.0-1
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:3.28.0-1
ii openbox [x-window-manager] 3.6.1-7
ii rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-emulator] 9.22-3
ii tightvncserver [xserver] 1:1.3.9-9
ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+19
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 333-1
ii xvfb [xserver] 2:1.19.6-1
xinit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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