Debian Bug report logs - #319085
findutils: xargs exits with wrong status when command exits with status 1

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Glenn Ammons <ammons@us.ibm.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: findutils: xargs exits with wrong status when command exits with status 1

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:16:27 -0400

Package: findutils
Version: 4.2.22-2
Severity: normal

xargs exits with the wrong status when the command exits with status 1:

    % false; echo $?
    1
    % echo foo | xargs -t false; echo $?
    false foo
    0

The exit status ought to be 123, according to the man page:

    xargs exits with the following status:
    0 if it succeeds
    123 if any invocation of the command exited with status 1-125
    ...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

findutils recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 319085-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <savannah-bounces@gnu.org>

To: 319085-submitter@bugs.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <gnu@downhill.at.eu.org>, bug-findutils@gnu.org

Subject: [bug #13878] xargs exits with exitcode 1 instead of 123 if invoked command fails

Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:33:27 +0000

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=13878>

                 Summary: xargs exits with exitcode 1 instead of 123 if
invoked command fails
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ametzler
            Submitted on: Don 21.07.2005 um 17:33
                Category: xargs
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Glenn Ammons
        Originator Email: 319085-submitter@bugs.debian.org
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.22
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Hello,
this is http://bugs.debian.org/319085 reported by Glenn Ammons:

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xargs exits with the wrong status when the command exits with status 1:

    % false; echo $?
    1
    % echo foo | xargs -t false; echo $?
    false foo
    0

The exit status ought to be 123, according to the man page:

    xargs exits with the following status:
    0 if it succeeds
    123 if any invocation of the command exited with status 1-125
---------------------
I've verifioed that this applies to 4.2.22 and current CVS, 4.120 worked as
documented.
             thanks, cu andreas



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Message #13 received at 319085-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Youngman <savannah-bounces@gnu.org>

To: 319085-submitter@bugs.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <gnu@downhill.at.eu.org>, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>, bug-findutils@gnu.org

Subject: [bug #13878] xargs exits with exitcode 1 instead of 123 if invoked command fails

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:47:06 +0000

Update of bug #13878 (project findutils):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Assigned to:                    None => jay                    

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Follow-up Comment #1:

That was an interesting problem.  The issue is that child_error is changed in
wait_for_all() after exit() has already been called on (since we fall off the
end of main()).   That means that it's too late by then to change the return
value.  As a workaround for this problem we now call _exit() when this
happens, passing the correct return value.    It might have been neater to
just call wait_for_all() before returning from main().  Anyway, the attached
patch (which I have committed to the development code) fixes the problem. 

 
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Additional Item Attachment:

File name: xargs-child-failure-exit-123.patch Size:2 KB
Fix
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?item_id=13878&item_file_id=2734>

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Message #16 received at 319085-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Youngman <savannah-bounces@gnu.org>

To: 319085-submitter@bugs.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <gnu@downhill.at.eu.org>, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>, bug-findutils@gnu.org

Subject: [bug #13878] xargs exits with exitcode 1 instead of 123 if invoked command fails

Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:27:24 +0000

Update of bug #13878 (project findutils):

             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
           Fixed Release:                    None => 4.2.24                 


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Message #21 received at 319085-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>

To: 319085-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#319085: fixed in findutils 4.2.24-1

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:02:09 -0700

Source: findutils
Source-Version: 4.2.24-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
findutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

findutils_4.2.24-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.24-1.diff.gz
findutils_4.2.24-1.dsc
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.24-1.dsc
findutils_4.2.24-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.24-1_i386.deb
findutils_4.2.24.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.2.24.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 319085@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated findutils package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:14:35 +0200
Source: findutils
Binary: findutils
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.2.24-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Description: 
 findutils  - utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate
Closes: 317019 317086 318417 319085 320378
Changes: 
 findutils (4.2.24-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * standards-version 3.6.2, no changes required.
   * New upstream version 4.2.24:
     - "-printf %Y %y"n works correctly again (Closes: #320378).
     - new option -regextype to finds for selecting more useful regex-variants
       than the default GNU Emacs.
     - find -exec rm -i {} \; works again. (Closes: #317019)
     - xargs exits with correct exit status 123 if invoked command returned
       non-zero returncode. (Closes: #319085)
     - xargs -I option documented in manpage. (Closes: #317086)
     - fixes to find.1 manpage (Closes: #318417)
Files: 
 a3328d1a5043dc1d2088161a73da8ae3 663 base required findutils_4.2.24-1.dsc
 f551df975740eb01ba315e33be836454 1007589 base required findutils_4.2.24.orig.tar.gz
 d5eaf1eef3a2b98aae43fe812cc4ce29 12221 base required findutils_4.2.24-1.diff.gz
 44491460bd72299539dbe4c5cf0521a2 373062 base required findutils_4.2.24-1_i386.deb

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