On 11/19/15 2:06 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Not sure if this is a documentation bug or a functional one, but the man page 
> does not seem to agree with the observed behavior for return when invoked in 
> DEBUG traps.

Thanks for the report.  The internal trap handler used for DEBUG and other
signals the shell treats specially needed to pick up the argument supplied
to `return' as well as noting `return' was called.

This affects the DEBUG, RETURN, and ERROR traps.

Chet
-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Reply via email to