Re: The exit code for the foreground command unexpectedly became 0.

Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Mar 2026 12:23:05 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 3/3/26 9:11 PM, 王伟 wrote:

>    We later tried writing minimal reproducible code, but we couldn't 
> reproduce the problem. I'm wondering if this is an extreme edge case? 

If you can't reproduce it, it seems so.

> Did 
> you change the job control system and the external command exit code 
> capture mechanism in versions 4.4.23 to 5.0.0? 

I took a look at the change log and couldn't find anything that seemed
relevant.

> If these improvements 
> prevented the problem from recurring, then we decided to give up on further 
> troubleshooting. Do you think our approach is reasonable?

I think it's reasonable to use a newer version of bash if it doesn't
exhibit the problem.

Chet

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