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

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 10:18 AM Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
>

-c is also in my queue :).

Warner

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