Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: =?utf-8?B?4oCYY29tbWFuZCDigKYgJuKAmQ==?= creates subshell Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:00:23 +0200 Lines: 21 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7dvoi92p.dag@gnui.org> <09ea84b2-4fb1-6b05-7c0b-fe6b2ab00c6f@archlinux.org> <2643.1593599092@jinx.noi.kre.to> <14637.1593625593@jinx.noi.kre.to> <871rlvcdzc.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1593626433 11352 209.51.188.17 (1 Jul 2020 18:00:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Dmitry Alexandrov , bug-bash@gnu.org To: Robert Elz Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de X-Auth-Info: x7dF0K37+lskzHhDs64dZBPjPCJI2a5yRT2/ZTC0EvgMAsnZhjF9OmXfSYxs1bAC X-Yow: A shapely CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL is FIDGETING inside my costume.. In-Reply-To: <14637.1593625593@jinx.noi.kre.to> (Robert Elz's message of "Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:46:33 +0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.91 (gnu/linux) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=212.18.0.9; envelope-from=whitebox@nefkom.net; helo=mail-out.m-online.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/01 14:00:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <871rlvcdzc.fsf@igel.home> X-Mailman-Original-References: <7dvoi92p.dag@gnui.org> <09ea84b2-4fb1-6b05-7c0b-fe6b2ab00c6f@archlinux.org> <2643.1593599092@jinx.noi.kre.to> <14637.1593625593@jinx.noi.kre.to> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:16517 On Jul 02 2020, Robert Elz wrote: > POSIX says: > > If command is specified, exec shall not return to the shell; But it also says: If command is not found, the exit status shall be 127. If command is found, but it is not an executable utility, the exit status shall be 126. And that's what bash does. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."