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Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode

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  Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> - 2018-12-24 00:42 +0000

#14946 — Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode

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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