svn commit: r365052 - head/usr.bin/script

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 9:11 AM Warner Losh <imp at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Author: imp
> Date: Tue Sep  1 16:11:23 2020
> New Revision: 365052
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365052
>
> Log:
>   Have script accept and ignore -e for Linux compat
>
>   In the util-linux version of script, it will always exit with succes.
>   Except when run with -e, in which case it will have the exit value of
>   the child. BSD Script already uses the child's exit value for its exit
>   value. Some config and other helper scripts depend on being able to
>   specify -e. Accept it for compatibility since we'll already to the
>   right thing, but otherwise we ignore it.
>
>
What kind of usage is not currently portable but becomes portable as a
result
of this change?  I thought the BSD and GNU syntax was inherently pretty
different,
e.g., with '-c' for the command to run vs. implicit positional arguments,
and would
love to be able to retrain myself to something that works everywhere...

-Ben