Re: [patch #7638] exit-code triggered error behavior changed in 4.1: incompat w/earlier versions of POSIX

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/21/11 4:41 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> URL:
>   <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7638>
> 
>                  Summary: exit-code triggered error behavior changed in 4.1:
> incompat w/earlier versions of POSIX
>                  Project: The GNU Bourne-Again SHell
>             Submitted by: law
>             Submitted on: Fri 21 Oct 2011 01:41:05 PM PDT
>                 Category: None
>                 Priority: 5 - Normal
>                   Status: None
>                  Privacy: Public
>              Assigned to: None
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>              Open/Closed: Open
>          Discussion Lock: Any
> 
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> Details:
> 
> The new version of bash in non-posix mode (this is likely changed in POSIX
> mode as well, but in non-posix mode it didn't need to be, pointlessly, made
> incompatible) has broken compatibility with the early POSIX specs in following
> the newer 'portable OS **[non]** interoperability Xchange' specification'. 

Really?


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