Hi Eric, 2009/2/25 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>: > According to Gary V. Vaughan on 2/24/2009 10:31 PM: >>> I'm assuming that it will print oops, in which case I can modify the test >>> to skip the test if kill fails. >> >> Nope, afraid it's doing something else :( >> >> % echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([echo "meh" && kill -9 $$ || echo >> "oops: $?"])' | ./src/m4 >> meh > > What is sysval after this run? > > $ echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([echo "meh" && kill -9 $$ || > echo "oops: $?"])sysval' | ./src/m4
Oh yeah. D'uh, should've thought of that myself! % echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([echo "meh" && kill -9 $$ || echo "oops: $?"])sysval' | ./src/m4 meh 127 Cheers, Gary -- Email me: g...@gnu.org (\(\ Read my blog: http://blog.azazil.net ( o.O) And my other blog: http://www.machaxor.net (uu )o ...and my book: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook ("("_)