On 3/16/15 4:30 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: >> Here's the other side: allowing `set -$-' to succeed keeps a Posix-mode >> shell running a script from throwing a fatal error. Allowing it also >> keeps the bug reports down. The same rationale can be used to add -c and >> -s to the no-op flags, since those are command-line options that end up >> in $-. > I know this following line of thought doesn't help much, but, have you really > seen that used in the wild?
I can't really say, since I only get the bug reports. If a thing works, and people use it, I'll never hear about it. I'm going to try making `-i' an invalid option to set and go from there. I can always make it a no-op in an interactive shell later. 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/