-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Mike Frysinger on 2/22/2009 10:03 PM: > previous versions of bash would happily accept negative values ( treated as a > signed integer and masked with like 0xff), but it seems some changes related > to option parsing has broken that > > $ f(){ return -1; }; f > -bash: return: -1: invalid option > return: usage: return [n]
What about 'return -- -1'? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmim5YACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAvigCgvi0lCTHJBAhcYNBZKgf+zNUK N1wAoKKjgPxFLF7bPCvKY58klIkMnYA2 =Q93f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----