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Bug#1030316: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1030316: trim script always exits 1 despite not failing

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[Scott Colby]
> I believe this is caused by the final command of the script being
> `zpool list ... | while read -r pool do ...; done`. When the output
> of `zpool list` is exhausted, `read` returns an error, and thus the
> script exits with that status. I have confirmed this by running the
> script with `sh -x` and seeing that the last output line is
> `+ read -r pool`.

This sound strange.  It is not according to my understanding of bourne
shell scripting, and this oneliner describe how I believe it work:

  % ((set -x; echo foo|while read a; do a=$a; done); echo $?)
  + echo foo
  + read a
  + a=foo
  + read a
  0
  %

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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Bug#1030316: trim script always exits 1 despite not failing "Scott Colby" <debian@scott.scolby.com> - 2023-02-02 20:30 +0100
  Bug#1030316: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1030316: trim script always exits 1 despite not failing Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> - 2023-02-02 20:50 +0100
    Bug#1030316: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1030316: trim script always exits 1 despite not failing "Scott Colby" <debian@scott.scolby.com> - 2023-02-02 21:00 +0100

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