Re: bug-report: debug trap messes up pipestatus if containing command substitution

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/21/19 12:51 AM, Hengyang Zhao wrote:
> Dear bash developers,
> 
> I found an unexpected behavior when engineering some code in a callback of
> DEBUG trap. The code has been distilled to expose this behavior:
> 
> ### BEGIN
> my_func() {
>   local x=$(:)
> }
> trap my_func DEBUG
> false | true | false | true | false
> echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]}
> # expects 1 0 1 0 1
> # gets 0 0 0 0 1
> ### END

Thanks for the report. This appears to be a Linux-only problem (at least I
can't reproduce it on Mac OS X). I'll fix it for the next devel push.

Chet

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