Bug 9311

Summary:	shell case statement resets exit status too early
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	nicolas.cavallari
Component:	Standard Compliance	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.24.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description nicolas.cavallari 2016-09-27 14:30:45 UTC

This code:

false || case a in a) echo $?;; esac

outputs 0 when run by busybox ash.  Bash outputs 1 as expected.

dash has received a fix for this recently.  Maybe the same solution (having eval function return their exit status) would solve the problem:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/dash/dash.git/commit/?id=da534b740e628512e8e0e62729d6a2ef521e5096

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2016-09-28 17:46:51 UTC

Fixed in git, thanks!