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Concern about new g-b-s logging change - loss of error detection


Please forgive me if this has already been discussed - I've been time-limited to scanning subject lines only recently.


Bourne shells consider only the exit status of the last command in a pipeline when determining $? - this means that the addition of lots of "| tee somefile" will cause errors occurring during the commands being logged to be ignored.


This seems to me to be a more severe problem than not keeping the logs in the first place - as a failing "make" could result in the packaging of a partially built package.

Max.


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