From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [EVAL] with set -e exit the shell if a subshell exits non-zero
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:02:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100628070231.GA26558@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614095603.27834.qmail@728ec0bb900c60.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:56:03AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> Example:
>
> $ dash -c 'set -e; (false); echo here'
> here
>
> With this commit, dash exits 1 before echo.
>
> The bug was reported by Stefan Fritsch through
> http://bugs.debian.org/514863
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
I'm not convinced that this change is necessary. I've run some
tests and bash/pdksh both behave like dash, while ksh93 behaves
in the way you suggest.
Has bash's behaviour changed recently (I'm using an ancient
version)?
Cheers,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 9:56 [PATCH] [EVAL] with set -e exit the shell if a subshell exits non-zero Gerrit Pape
2010-06-28 7:02 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2010-06-28 7:22 ` Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
2010-06-28 13:16 ` Eric Blake
2010-07-05 8:26 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-06 9:51 ` Herbert Xu
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