Re: Doc of "set -e" should mention non-locality

[Rainer Blome]

Thanks for pointing me to that issue report.

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> Datum: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:47:11 -0600
> Von: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> An: Rainer Blome <rainer.blome@gmx.de>
> CC: Dan Douglas <ormaaj@gmail.com>, bug-bash@gnu.org
> On 07/04/2012 09:37 AM, Rainer Blome wrote:

> > * Different POSIX shell implementations are free to behave
> > differently, because the behavior is not specified exactly.
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/set.html
> Actually, that's where you are wrong.  POSIX _does_ specify bash's
> current behavior (in fact, bash changed behavior to match POSIX)

Is POSIX an open and public standard?
Can you please provide a link to where this is documented?
The link I gave is apparently not the right one.

> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=52

Thanks for pointing to that issue record.
Is this part of the standard yet?

> which even includes this example:
> [clear doc omitted...]

That is what I was suggesting in the first place, clear documentation.  
Hope it makes it into the standard docs, if it hasn't already.

> > * Some shell implementations *do* behave differently from Bash
> > in this regard. At least on AIX, ksh and sh do so.
> 
> Only because they haven't been patched to obey POSIX yet.

OK.

Rainer