Chet Ramey wrote:
As Eric said, the other parts of the Posix description make it clear that the `ignoring set -e' status is inherited by subshells.
---- The original POSIX standard made this clear -- in that it was only a failure of a 'simple' command that resulted' in an err-exit'. Since a subshell is not a 'simple command', it would not qualify just like ((n=0)) isn't a simple command, so shouldn't trigger an error exit...(but has in some recent versions).... Is that fixed in bash now?