On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 03:53:42PM +0300, Christoph Gysin wrote: > I'm still curious as to why set -e is stripped in the first place?
Chet can give the definitive answer, but my take is that it's a huge surprise to someone writing a function independent of the script, or using a function that was written independently of the script. If the function does not expect set -e to be in effect (which is not the default, and is not done in any sane environment, so why would anyone EXPECT it?) then it may have been written to work in a normal environment, and will fail in a set -e environment. I have many examples of commands that surprisingly explode and set your house on fire when run in a set -e environment, but which work perfectly well in a regular environment. See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
