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Re: (set -u -e; trap true EXIT; echo $bad) exits 0


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: (set -u -e; trap true EXIT; echo $bad) exits 0
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:04:44 -0400
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Piotr Zielinski wrote:

>> Thanks for the report.  The problem is that bash doesn't always set
>> $? before testing whether or not the shell should exit because -e has
>> been set and an unset variable is being expanded.
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  Does it mean it is a bug or a feature?

It's a bug.  It will be fixed in the next release.

Chet
-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/




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