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: [PATCH] added bug warning in comments
---
lib/easydialog.in | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/easydialog.in b/lib/easydialog.in
index 59b0efa2..121c56ab 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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