Fixed up Makefiles to actually work

[matthijs/upstream/backupninja.git] / lib / easydialog.in

diff --git a/lib/easydialog.in b/lib/easydialog.in
index 59b0efa296522fab1c1b15d4d479cfc825ce7a85..d8033d448b37a7d23538aff6af03a3dff0e2315f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/easydialog.in
+++ b/lib/easydialog.in
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!@BASH@
+# -*- mode: sh; sh-basic-offset: 3; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-
 
 # copyright 2002 lmoore@tump.com under the terms of the GNU LGPL.
 # additions 2005 collective@riseup.net
@@ -244,6 +245,17 @@ 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 [ $status = 0 ]; then
       IFS=$''