Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:22:30AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: >> This bug only occurs when errexit is enabled and the final element of a >> pipeline is a simple command that returns a non-zero exit status. > > Well, if the final element in the pipeline is a simple command, all > works as is supposed to.
No. It works the way you want it to, but not the way SUS says it should. > When it's a-not-so-simple command, like a for or while loop, then it > does not terminate the parent. That's the case that's behaving correctly, even though it's not the way you want it to behave. Neither case should terminate the shell. Only a simple command should terminate the shell, and a pipeline is not a simple command, even if its components are. Chet is saying that the next bash release will fix this bug - meaning that "true | false" will no longer cause the shell to exit. paul
