sh.exe returns incorrect exit code

[Tom Honermann]

On 02/03/2014 12:13 PM, Tom Honermann wrote:
> $ cat doit.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> while [ 1 ]; do
>    make || {
>      echo "make failed unexpectedly"
>      break
>    }
> done
>
> $ cat Makefile
> all:
>          cl.exe /c t.cpp || (shopt -s nullglob && rm -f t.obj; exit 1)
>
> $ cat t.cpp
> int i;

I've been running five copies of the above test case in my environment 
(64-bit Windows 7 Pro SP1 running in VMware on a Linux host on a 4 core 
processor) all day.  No luck reproducing so far.

Tom.

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