[networking-discuss] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] [Fwd: CR6551714 Created P1/lib/svc/method/net-routing-setup doesn't getalongwithksh93=/sbin/sh]

[Roland Mainz]

James Carlson wrote:
> James Carlson writes:
> > Looking at the code, it seems pretty clear that the author expects
> > that 'set' doesn't change the return code value, and that the "-ne 0"
> > is checking for failures out of /usr/sbin/route itself.
> 
> Ah, shoot, I'm a bonehead.  Of course it works fine.  This is just a
> ksh93 bug and/or misfeature.

AFAIK this is _not_ a ksh93 bug or misfeature, ksh93 behaves as required
by the POSIX shell standard (see below).

[snip]
> In ksh93, it appears that this third case actually returns the
> argument count rather than 0 for success.

Uhm... are you sure ? ksh93 returns (as required by POSIX, see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/set.html) |0|
for all cases...

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Bye,
Roland

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