Re: AIX sysval failure

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Eric,

2009/2/25 Eric Blake <address@hidden>:
> According to Gary V. Vaughan on 2/24/2009 10:31 PM:
>>> I'm assuming that it will print oops, in which case I can modify the test
>>> to skip the test if kill fails.
>>
>> Nope, afraid it's doing something else :(
>>
>> % echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([echo "meh" && kill -9 $$ || echo
>> "oops: $?"])' | ./src/m4
>> meh
>
> What is sysval after this run?
>
> $ echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([echo "meh" && kill -9 $$ ||
>    echo "oops: $?"])sysval' | ./src/m4

Oh yeah.  D'uh, should've thought of that myself!

% echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([echo "meh" && kill -9 $$ ||
   echo "oops: $?"])sysval' | ./src/m4
meh
127

Cheers,
    Gary
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