[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' > -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' > -DLOCALEDIR='/nix/store/mm631h09mj964hm9q04l5fd8vw12j1mm-bash-3.2-p39/share/locale' > -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib > -g -O2 > uname output: Linux mail.desk 2.6.25.17-default #1 SMP Tue Oct 7 > 23:48:14 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > Bash Version: 3.2 > Patch Level: 39 > Release Status: release > > Description: > I'd say eval "{" should have non zero exit status.. > Maybe it should behave like this function and return exit status 1 ?
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next bash version. Note that it's only a problem when evaluating strings in interactive shells. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/