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29.4; eshell ls exit code

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: dwrz <at> dwrz.net, 75182 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75182: 29.4; eshell ls exit code
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:33:30 +0200

> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:52:35 -0800
> Cc: 75182 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
> 
> On 1/5/2025 7:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: David Wen Riccardi-Zhu <dwrz <at> dwrz.net>
> >> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:33:27 +0000
> >>
> >> Is it possible to have Emacs eshell/ls return a non-zero exit code for
> >> errors? On my system, calling ls .... returns an error code of 2. If I
> >> try the same command in eshell, I get similar error text ('No such file
> >> or directory'), but the exit code is still 0.
> > 
> > Jim, can you please look into this?
> 
> This ended up being easier than I thought (a one-liner!). Fixed on the 
> master branch in aff9261ab2a.
> 
> I think we should leave this as-is for the release branch though since 
> I'm pretty sure it's been this way for ages, and I don't fully 
> understand em-ls.el so there's a small risk I've made a mistake.

Fine with me, thanks.

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