Re: [Help-bash] behavior of -o pipefail

[Christof Warlich]

Am 29.10.2018 um 19:17 schrieb Chet Ramey:
> My bad, I took another look at your message. The reason that pipefail
> makes the rightmost non-zero exit status the status of the pipeline is
> also historical. It's what ksh93 did, and therefore what the folks
> involved in a discussion about multiple implementations of pipefail
> converged on. This happened back in mid-2001, as part of a series of
> messages about features to propose to Posix for standardization.

Ok. But can we agree that this converged decision (to return the last 
instead of the first non-zero exit status) was rather unfortunate (for 
the very reason that I pointed out before)?