Bug#994848: xterm: "xterm -e command" should return the exit code of "command"

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 368-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Hi,

for test suites of tools which manipulate terminals, it would be nice if
"xterm -e command" would return the exit code of "command", e.g.

  $ xterm -e false

should exit with return code 1, but actually does exit with return code 0.

This issue might be related with https://bugs.debian.org/427798 as being
able to save the contents of the terminal would be nice in the above
mentioned use case as well.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.13.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6           2.32-4
ii  libfontconfig1  2.13.1-4.2
ii  libfreetype6    2.10.4+dfsg-1
ii  libice6         2:1.0.10-1
ii  libtinfo6       6.2+20210905-1
ii  libutempter0    1.2.1-2
ii  libx11-6        2:1.7.2-2+b1
ii  libxaw7         2:1.0.13-1.1
ii  libxext6        2:1.3.4-1
ii  libxft2         2.3.2-2
ii  libxinerama1    2:1.1.4-2
ii  libxmu6         2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii  libxpm4         1:3.5.12-1
ii  libxt6          1:1.2.0-1
ii  xbitmaps        1.1.1-2.1

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils  7.7+5

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn  xfonts-cyrillic  <none>

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