Re: set -e and subshells

[Bob Proulx]

Jon Salz wrote:
> I'm noticing a difference in behavior between Solaris 9's sh and GNU
> bash, and was wondering if this is a bug or a feature.

I believe Solaris' sh is the Bourne shell.  I am told that to get a
POSIX shell on Solaris you would need to invoke /usr/XPG4/bin/sh.  Can
you try your experiment with Solaris' POSIX shell?

  /usr/XPG4/bin/sh -exc 'for x in a b c; do ( false ); echo status is $?; done'

For what it is worth HP-UX /bin/sh behaves the same as bash for this
case.

Bob