martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My first thought was that this is related to `set -e`, which would > prevent the subshell to ever execute kill, since the killing of > xautolock would be a failure. However, shell options do not > propagate to subshells, so the xautolock-containing shell is +e by > default.
My experiments indicate otherwise: $ for sh in sh bash dash posh ksh zsh; do $sh -e -c '(false; echo foo)'; done $ for sh in sh bash dash posh ksh zsh; do $sh -c '(false; echo foo)'; done foo foo foo foo foo foo $ for sh in sh bash dash posh ksh zsh; do $sh -e -c '(set +e; false; echo foo)'; done foo foo foo foo foo foo -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
