Benedikt Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Dash does not ignore the -e option in substitutions $(...) under AND/OR lists > and conditions. For example, in the program > > set -e > echo "$(echo X; false; echo Y)" || true > > the command `false` seems to interrupt the sequence and only X is printed > (tested with dash 0.5.8.2 and git master). But according to my understanding > of the POSIX specifications, `set -e` should be ignored under the OR list and > X and Y should be printed . The same behaviour can be > observed when using the substitution in the condition of a while, until, and > if. In contrast, set -e is effectively ignored in normal subshells under > AND/OR lists and conditions (e.g., `set -e; (echo X; false; echo Y) || true` > prints X and Y). > > Is this a bug in dash or in my understanding?
I'd say that it's a bug. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
