On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 21:39 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jon Salz wrote: > > I'm noticing a difference in behavior between Solaris 9's sh and GNU > > bash, and was wondering if this is a bug or a feature. > > I believe Solaris' sh is the Bourne shell. I am told that to get a > POSIX shell on Solaris you would need to invoke /usr/XPG4/bin/sh. Can > you try your experiment with Solaris' POSIX shell? > > /usr/XPG4/bin/sh -exc 'for x in a b c; do ( false ); echo status is $?; > done' > > For what it is worth HP-UX /bin/sh behaves the same as bash for this > case. > > Bob >
Sure: /usr/xpg4/bin/sh -exc 'for x in a b c; do ( false ); echo status is $?; done' + false - Jon _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
