From 413a3be0ac354e087d280d17cc5710948b270542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elijah Saxon <elijah@riseup.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:21:28 +0000
Subject: added bug warning in comments

---
 lib/easydialog.in | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib')

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 [ $status = 0 ]; then
       IFS=$''
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