On 10/07/2017 02:53 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote: > The bash manual and info pages state: > > | If the search is unsuccessful, the shell searches for a > | defined shell function named 'command_not_found_handle'. If that > | function exists, it is invoked with the original command and the > | original command's arguments as its arguments, and the function's > | exit status becomes the exit status of the shell. > > This fails to mention that command_not_found_handle() is run in the > subshell forked to 'exec' the command, so even an explicit 'exit' will > not exit anything but that subshell. It also means a command handler > can't do anything that influences the main shell, except send it a > signal with 'kill'.
Yeah I wish it didn't do that. If I wanted a subshell I'd add one myself.
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