Re: bash-4.0 regression: negative return values

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 23 February 2009 07:50:30 Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Mike Frysinger on 2/22/2009 10:03 PM:
> > previous versions of bash would happily accept negative values ( treated
> > as a signed integer and masked with like 0xff), but it seems some changes
> > related to option parsing has broken that
> >
> > $ f(){ return -1; }; f
> > -bash: return: -1: invalid option
> > return: usage: return [n]
>
> What about 'return -- -1'?

that does indeed work.  thanks for pointing out the obvious which i missed ;).
-mike

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