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Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values
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Eric Blake |
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Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values |
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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:50:30 -0700 |
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According to Mike Frysinger on 2/22/2009 10:03 PM:
> previous versions of bash would happily accept negative values ( treated as a
> signed integer and masked with like 0xff), but it seems some changes related
> to option parsing has broken that
>
> $ f(){ return -1; }; f
> -bash: return: -1: invalid option
> return: usage: return [n]
What about 'return -- -1'?
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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- bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Mike Frysinger, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Jon Seymour, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Chet Ramey, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Mike Frysinger, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Chet Ramey, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Mike Frysinger, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Chet Ramey, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Mike Frysinger, 2009/02/23
- Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values, Eric Blake, 2009/02/23