1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/apt-panopticommon.lua b/apt-panopticommon.lua
index e31c22f..0939c3a 100644
--- a/apt-panopticommon.lua
+++ b/apt-panopticommon.lua
@@ -501,6 +501,8 @@ APT.readCmd = function(cmd)
             table.insert(result, l)
         end
     end
+    -- While this does return the same things as os.execute(), it's just as useless.
+    output:close()
     return result
 end
 
@@ -590,23 +592,23 @@ APT.exe = function(c)
             I'm getting 7168 or 0.  No idea what the fuck that is.
         local ok, rslt, status = os.execute(s)
         ]]
-        local f = APT.readCmd(self.cmd, 'r')
+        local f = APT.readCmd(self.cmd .. '; echo "$?"', 'r')
         -- The last line will be the command's returned status, collect everything else in result.
-        self.status = ''        -- Otherwise the result starts with 0.
+        self.status = tonumber(f[#f])
+        f[#f] = nil
         self.result = '\n'
         for i,l in ipairs(f) do
             self.result = self.result .. l .. "\n"
         end
-        f = APT.readCmd('echo "$?"', 'r')
-        for i,l in ipairs(f) do
-            self.status = tonumber(l)
-            if (137 == self.status) or (124 == self.status) then
-                print("timeout killed " .. self.status .. ' ' .. self.command)
-                E("timeout killed " .. self.status .. ' ' .. self.command)
-            elseif (0 ~= self.status) then
-                print("status |" .. self.status .. '| ' .. self.command)
-                E("status |" .. self.status .. '| ' .. self.command)
-            end
+        if (137 == self.status) or (124 == self.status) then
+            print("timeout killed " .. self.status .. ' ' .. self.command)
+            print('ERROR ' .. "timeout killed " .. self.status .. ' ' .. self.command)
+        elseif (nil == self.status) then
+            print("status |" .. "NIL" .. '| ' .. self.command)
+            E("status |" .. "NIL" .. '| ' .. self.command)
+        elseif (0 ~= self.status) then
+--          print("status |" .. self.status .. '| ' .. self.command)
+            E("status |" .. self.status .. '| ' .. self.command)
         end
         return self
     end