2014-10-10 8:38 GMT+02:00 Dan Douglas :
> I would still propose that a simple and powerful way to extend Bash with
> exception handling would be to extend the ERR trap by passing it some metadata
> about the type and location of the exception incurred so that it can be
> handled
> by user code. Th
2014-10-10 3:29 GMT+02:00 Chet Ramey :
> What does logically composable mean in this context?
I would like the hypothetical errfail option to:
* Behave like errexit at the top level (outside of functions).
* Be inherited by functions, subshells, and command substitution.
* Inside functions,
Hi all,
the errexit option can be very useful in simple scripts. This option
is being ignored in many contexts like lists and conditionals though.
I understand that this is "by design" and that errexit cannot be
"fixed" to behave more reasonably. Still, this makes bash a lot less
useful than it co
