Re: Consequences of shell errors

[Chet Ramey]

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On 6/18/15 9:08 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/18/2015 06:51 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 
>>
>> Neither of these are failures; the export command returns success.  In
>> fact, according to Posix, the export command cannot fail.
> 
> Not quite true; export CAN fail:
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=351

Introducing declaration commands that treat arguments as assignments
implies that these are variable assignment errors, not return status
values from export.  This interpretation doesn't change the description
of export, which continues to list `zero' as the only possible exit
status.

> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=654

This applies to variable assignments preceding `export'.

> such as when trying to modify a readonly variable:
> 
> $ bash -c 'a=1; readonly a; export a=2; echo $?'
> bash: a: readonly variable
> 1
> 
> In fact, bash _didn't_ abort, while other shells do:

You should have tried it in posix mode to test posix behavior.


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