At Saturday 22 August 2009, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> I have the following scripts:
>>
>> [CUT]
>>
>> I thought that when bash detect a syntax errors in the script,
>> it would pass a $? != 0 to the code in the exit trap, regardless
>> of whether `set -e' is active or not.
>
> It's not exactly a bug -- this behavior isn't standardized
> anywhere, and historical shells behave differently. The behavior
> you want is useful enough that I'll change it for bash-4.1, though.
>
> Chet
Thanks, much appreciated.
Oh, and by the way, sorry for the duplicate message.
Regards,
Stefano
