Ulrich Drepper in comment 6 to redhat bug 483385 links to austin-group-l, item 11863 by Geoff Clare:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483385#c6 https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=11863 Geoff Clare writes: [...] I think the description of -e should be replaced by: -e When this option is on, if either * a pipeline, or * a simple command that is not in a pipeline fails for any of the reasons listed in Section 2.8.1 (on page 2315) or returns an exit status value >0, and is not part of the compound list following a while, until, or if keyword, and is not a part of an AND or OR list, and is not a pipeline beginning with the ! reserved word, then the shell shall immediately exit. -- Geoff Clare <yyyy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The Open Group, Thames Tower, Station Road, Reading, RG1 1LX, England
