Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode

From	Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode
Date	2018-12-24 00:42 +0000
Message-ID	<mailman.6231.1545612133.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	<dbf54249-2563-0258-3e91-2e7b314c8fb7@inlv.org> <229b496f-7fce-a270-b4e3-85dc10b662af@case.edu>

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Op 14-12-18 om 14:29 schreef Chet Ramey:
> On 12/14/18 6:46 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>> In current git, 'bash -o posix' no longer exits the shell on a syntax error
>> in the argument to the special builtin 'eval'. Bash 4.2-4.4 exit as POSIX
>> specifies.
> 
> Well, not quite. It's the specific case of an unexpected end of file. ksh93
> doesn't exit, either, but it's probably the right thing to do, and the
> right thing for backwards compatibility.

But now it exits on an unexpected EOF (or other syntax error) in 
'command eval' as well, which it shouldn't.

- M.

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