On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:56:49PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > Yes, this is the intended behavior.
Thanks for clarifying. > This is one of the things that > came out of the discussions among the Posix working group. It also > matches historical practice. I searched the archives and found this thread from Feb 2009. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/282 > Ironically, one of the examples we used > while discussing the issue is very close to yours. Indeed, very close: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/282/focus=283 David Korn gave this example: ... it might seem strange that -e cannot be reenabled, but all shells seem to follow this historic practices, so that sh -ce '(set -e;false;echo good) || echo bad' outputs good. Thanks, Tobias
