Re: Assigning to BASHPID fails silently

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:53:37PM +0200, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Assigning to BASHPID most certainly does have an effect. Since you
> didn't quote that part, I think you might have missed my point that
> attempting this will silently exit the shell without any error message,
> causing the problem to be hard to track down.

Cannot reproduce:

imadev:~$ bash
imadev:~$ echo $$
5659
imadev:~$ BASHPID=923
imadev:~$ echo $$
5659
imadev:~$ exit
imadev:~$