Re: (ITS#6979) test062 portability

Aaron Richton writes:

It looks like checking the function exit isn't portable; maybe some kind of bash-ism. It looks like the code was on the path to communicating the retval via $RCOUT file already?

I'm curious, what is this about - an observed bug, or not? There is no function call here, 'wait' is checking a subprocess's exit status. That's standard, and so is checking the return (not exit) status from a function as far as I know, but I'm not surprised if some shells have quirks.

I noticed because I saw the patch entering master. Which is fine by me, except the patch may be a bit incomplete. Since $SEARCHRC is now the output from `cat`, it may be best to quote it here:

    if test $SEARCHRC != 52 ; then