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set -e is ineffective for subshells
From: |
Paul Jarc |
Subject: |
set -e is ineffective for subshells |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:48:37 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 |
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I. -I.
-I./include -I./lib -I/pkg/bash-2.05-4-sh/include -O2 -pipe -mpentium
uname output: Linux multivac.cwru.edu 2.4.4 #1 SMP Fri May 11 16:28:16 EDT 2001
i686 unknown
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 2.05
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
(This is actually patch level 4. Dunno why bashbug doesn't know that.)
Description:
The -e switch does not cause bash to exit when a subshell
exits with nonzero status.
Repeat-By:
bash -e '(exit 1); echo still here'
- set -e is ineffective for subshells,
Paul Jarc <=