Well, as I showed in my other post, sudo does return the exit status of the command it runs.

Unfortunately, the case where the command returns 1 seems to be indistinguishable from the case where sudo returns 1. I guess that little bit of ambiguity could be a big bummer. You might be able to get around it on a case by case basis by using wrappers for your commands.

-sauoq
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