Re: Bug#125714: capital W flag not working as documented

[robertb@xxxxxxxxx (robert)]

Excellent.  I guess I'll have to get around to upgrading soon...

 > From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@xxxxxxxxx>
 > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:27:23 +0100 (CET)
 >
 > robert wrote:
 > > Package: procmail
 > > Version: 3.13.1-4
 > >
 > > The W flag for procmail does not work as documented in the man page.
 > >
 > > I could not find an archived bug report pertaining to this bug.
 > >
 > > This is a minor bug.
 > >
 > > % uname -a
 > > Linux bedap 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686 unknown
 > > % dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version
 > > Version: 2.1.3-13
 > > % cat > trash/test.proc
 > > :0iW
 > > |false
 > >
 > > :0
 > > /dev/null
 > > ^D
 > > % procmail -m -p VERBOSE=on trash/test.proc < /dev/null
 > > procmail: [11636] Tue Dec 18 14:16:40 2001
 > > procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=."
 > > procmail: Rcfile: "trash/test.proc"
 > > procmail: Executing "false"
 > > procmail: Program failure (1) of "false"
 > > procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=false"
 > > procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/dev/null"
 > > procmail: Opening "/dev/null"
 > >   Folder: /dev/null							      0
 > >
 > > Yet, the man page for procmailrc says
 > >
 > >        W    Has the same meaning as the `w' flag, but  will  sup
 > >             press any `Program failure' message.
 > >
 > > Running trash/test.proc with a lower 'w' has the same effect.
 > 
 > Thanks a lot for your bug report.
 > 
 > It seems already fixed in procmail_3.15.2-1, available in current
 > stable (i.e. Debian 2.2r4).
 > 
 > Using `w' I get:
 > 
 > [...]
 > procmail: Executing "false"
 > procmail: Program failure (1) of "false"
 > 
 > while using `W' I get:
 > 
 > [...]
 > procmail: Executing "false"
 > procmail: Non-zero exitcode (1) from "false"