Re: Change in behaviour regarding subshell handling?

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> [2009-09-24 08:29]:
> >   l.  Changed behavior of shell when -e option is in effect to reflect 
> > consensus
> >       of Posix shell standardization working group.
> 
> This behavior is one of the consequences of the Austin Group's interpretation.
> Failures of user-specified subshells cause the shell to exit when set -e is
> in effect.  The key piece of the interpretation was to widen the scope of
> commands that cause the shell to exit without an explicit exception from
> simple commands to all commands.

Thanks for the confirmation.  Maybe CHANGES can be updated to list all
the changes that were made as a consequence of the Austin Group's
interpretation.

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Martin Michlmayr
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