Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Linda Walsh Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: -e does not take effects in subshell Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:58:02 -0700 Lines: 15 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20150811135056.GD4309@eeg.ccf.org> <55CC26A7.10000@redhat.com> <55D39A71.2030109@tlinx.org> <87mvxo5mme.fsf@igel.home> <55D3B22E.9040507@tlinx.org> <20150819124214.GL4309@eeg.ccf.org> 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 1440103885 21088 208.118.235.17 (20 Aug 2015 20:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: "bug-bash@gnu.org" To: Greg Wooledge Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Thunderbird In-Reply-To: <20150819124214.GL4309@eeg.ccf.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 173.164.175.65 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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:11401 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > (Wow, how did we get here from "-e does not take effects in subshell"?) > --- because the POSIX spec changed and bash's handling of "-e" changed to follow the new spec. The earlier spec had -e only exit a script if a *simple* (external) command failed. It didn't include builtins nor functions.