Re: Consequences of shell errors

[Chet Ramey]

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On 6/18/15 10:40 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/18/2015 08:22 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ah, but:
> 
> $ export 1 bash: export: `1': not a valid identifier $ echo $? 1
> 
> How can that be considered a variable assignment error; nothing was 
> assigned?

I didn't say that; I only mentioned what was included in the interpretation
in the link.

Obviously, export can fail.  Posix just doesn't acknowledge it.

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