[bug #54509] `-execdir command ;` returns 0 when it should not

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                 Summary: `-execdir command ;` returns 0 when it should not
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 13 Aug 2018 08:23:38 PM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: segfault
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

This affects find 4.7.0-git on Debian Sid (unstable), but I couldn't select
that version in the bug submit form, because it only lists releases up to
4.6.0.

The man page says the following about `-execdir command ;`:

"If any invocation returns a non-zero value as exit status, then find returns
a non-zero exitstatus."

This doesn't seem to be correct, for example the following returns 0:


mkdir foo; find foo -execdir false \;





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