Re: Bug in function return statement in while subshell

[Chet Ramey]

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On 7/30/13 10:30 AM, Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-07-30 10:18, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> After the fork() which creates the subshell, each of the two processes
>> (parent and child) is still within its own instance of the function.
>> The "return" command executed in the child causes the child's function
>> to terminate, but this does not cause the parent's function to terminate.
> 
> I think we all understand the technical reasons *why* this occurs, that has
> seemed clear since the beginning. My concern is that I think it is 
> semantically
> wrong to act as if we are still in a function when in a child, and accept a
> return statement there.

And we are now back to where we were yesterday at this time: most people
aren't really aware of when and how subshells are created.  Why should
a pipeline in a function cause `return' to raise an error?  (And this
can change based on the value of the `lastpipe' shell option.)

Chet
> 


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