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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/easydialog.in | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/easydialog.in b/lib/easydialog.in index 59b0efa..121c56a 100644 --- a/lib/easydialog.in +++ b/lib/easydialog.in @@ -244,6 +244,17 @@ formDisplay() { ) | xargs $DIALOG 2> $temp local status=$? + ## + ## the exit status is meaningless, it is always 0. + ## i can't figure out how to get the exit status of dialog + ## if we do "dialog `arg code`" or "dialog $args", then the quotes + ## get messed up and dialog won't run. + ## if we do "(arg code) | xargs dialog", then the exit status is + ## swallowed by xargs. xargs should return different exit status + ## depending on the exit status of the command run, but i have + ## never been able to get that to work. + ## + REPLY= if [ $status = 0 ]; then IFS=$'' |