mobile-shell/mosh

Undocumented behavior: mosh drops exit code of command executed on target, returns overall session success instead

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#1,010 opened on Oct 2, 2018

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Description

I would expect mosh --local 127.0.0.1 "sh -c 'exit 42'" ; echo $? to exit with code 42 as does ssh, but it exits with 0. Is this behavior intentional?

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Investigate how mosh handles exit codes from remote commands and compare with SSH's behavior. Check the client server protocol for exit code transmission.
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cpp
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