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Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values
Date: 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'?

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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