Bogus exit code 127 from a child process
Dimitry Andric
dimitry@unified-streaming.com
Sun Mar 17 13:10:55 GMT 2024
On 17 Mar 2024, at 13:50, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@unified-streaming.com> wrote:
>
> On 17 Mar 2024, at 13:35, Takashi Yano via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> ...
>>
>> I also test your test case:
>> while bash -c 'true & true & wait -n || { echo 1: $?; exit 1; } && wait -n || { echo 2: $?; exit 1; }'; do echo $((i++)); done
>> in Linux (Debian 12.5), and the issue reproduced!
>
> Yeah, same here with bash 5.1.16(1)-release on Ubuntu 22.04. It errors out with 127 after ~50-200 loops.
Having built bash master (bash-5.2-27-gf3b6bd19) here, it consistently gives 127 in this area:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/builtins/wait.def#n227
211 #if defined (JOB_CONTROL)
212 if (nflag)
213 {
214 if (list)
215 {
216 opt = set_waitlist (list);
217 if (opt == 0)
218 WAIT_RETURN (127);
219 wflags |= JWAIT_WAITING;
220 }
221
222 status = wait_for_any_job (wflags, &pstat);
223 if (vname && status >= 0)
224 builtin_bind_var_to_int (vname, pstat.pid, bindflags);
225
226 if (status < 0)
=> 227 status = 127;
228 if (list)
229 unset_waitlist ();
230 WAIT_RETURN (status);
231 }
232 #endif
So for some reason, wait_for_any_job() returns a negative value in this particular situation.
-Dimitry
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