Re: A few man page fixes from RHEL-5

[Matthew Woehlke]

Tomas Janousek wrote:
> these three patches have been accepted into RHEL-5.2 and I think they may be
> worth including in bash upstream.
>
> +Also, please note that while executing in non-interactive mode and while in
> +.I posix
> +mode, any special builtin (like \fB.\fP, \fB:\fP, \fBbreak\fP,
> +\fBcontinue\fP, \fBeval\fP, \fBexec\fP, \fBexit\fP, \fBexport\fP,
> +\fBreadonly\fP, \fBreturn\fP, \fBset\fP, \fBshift\fP, \fBsource\fP,
> +\fBtimes\fP, \fBtrap\fP, \fBunset\fP) exiting with a non-zero status
> +causes the shell to stop execution.

Doesn't 'exec' replace the process? I get the others (I think), but I 
don't understand what shell is left to "stop execution" after an exec.

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