whiptail manpage says exit code -1 not 255
Bug #1010534 reported by
Brian Candler
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| newt (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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| newt (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Bug Description
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
whiptail 0.52.11-2ubuntu10
whiptail(1) says the following:
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if whiptail is exited by pressing the Yes or OK but‐
ton, and 1 if the No or Cancel button is pressed. Otherwise, if errors
occur inside whiptail or whiptail is exited by pressing the ESC key,
the exit status is -1.
However it's not possible for a Unix process to return exit status -1. It returns 255, as confirmed by
whiptail --yesno Wibble? 7 50; echo $?
then hit ESC.
| tags: | added: manpage precise |
Revision history for this message
| Javier López (javier-lopez) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in newt (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in newt (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Thomas Ward (teward) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in newt (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
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I can confirm this in upstream, debian and ubuntu versions, I've added a comment to a debian related report which list other
inaccuracies in the man page, I'd suggest waiting for the changes coming from Debian (and from them to go to upstream), since it's not a critical problem.
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