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Re: -e does not take effects in subshell

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  Re: -e does not take effects in subshell Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2015-08-12 23:09 -0600

#11337 — Re: -e does not take effects in subshell

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On 08/12/2015 09:54 PM, PRC wrote:
> 1.  If the function is complicated and contains lots of commands, it 
> would be more troublesome appending && to every command rather 
> than simply using one single "set -e" at the front.
> 2.  It is not 
> reasonable that suppression of '-e' is applied as well inside the 
> function. My intention is if my_build succeeds continue to do other 
> stuff. Does anyone like the rule that a function never fails only if it is part of a 
> compound command?

Like it or not, it is the historical behavior standardized by POSIX. It
is NOT intuitive, and our advice is "DON'T USE set -e - IT WON'T DO WHAT
YOU WANT".  We can't change the behavior, because it would break scripts
that rely on the POSIX-specified behavior.

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