netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ipbatch: fix use of 'ip netns exec'

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:49:13 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
CC:	<shemminger@...tta.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<junwei.zhang@...nd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ipbatch: fix use of 'ip netns exec'

On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 18:05 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> From: JunweiZhang <junwei.zhang@...nd.com>
> 
> execvp() does not return when the command succeed, hence all commands in the
> batch file after the line 'ip netns exec' are not executed.
>
> Let's fork before calling execvp().

A Unix shell forks every command it runs, so why should ip do this too?

[...]
> +       return WIFEXITED(status) ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
[...]

So you throw away the original exit code of the child process.

I suspect your actual problem has to do with the exit code of the child,
and your shell script contains 'set -e'.

Ben.

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