tee and exit status

Question

is there an alternative to \"tee\" which captures STDOUT/STDERR of the command being executed and exits with the same exit status as the processed command. Something as followin

Answer 1

Korn shell, ALL in 1 line:

foo; RET_VAL=$?; if test ${RET_VAL} != 0;then echo $RET_VAL; echo Error occurred!>/tmp/out.err;exit 2;fi |tee >>/tmp/out.err ; if test ${RET_VAL} != 0;then exit $RET_VAL;fi