On 2/13/12 4:43 AM, Ewan Mellor wrote:
>> Yes, it's a bug. When -e is in effect, the exit status is not set
>> before the shell exits. When it isn't, the code path taken results in
>> the correct exit status.
>>
>> Here's a patch that solves this particular problem.
>
> Thanks Chet. What happens next? I'm not a bash developer normally, so I
> don't know what the procedure is. Is that something that you can submit for
> me, or do you need me to file a bug somewhere?
The bug will be fixed in the next version of bash. It may be released as a
patch to bash-4.2. I posted the patch in the event that folks wanted to
patch their local builds.
Chet
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