Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Martijn Dekker Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:42:04 +0000 Lines: 15 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <229b496f-7fce-a270-b4e3-85dc10b662af@case.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1545612134 12477 208.118.235.17 (24 Dec 2018 00:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: <229b496f-7fce-a270-b4e3-85dc10b662af@case.edu> Content-Language: en-GB X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 37.59.109.123 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:14946 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.