>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: > The devmanual warns that calling die in a subshell does not work.
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/error-handling/index.html > This warning has been obsolete for some time; modern versions of > Portage handle die in a subshell just fine. > In fact, at least a couple of eclasses rely on this behavior. For > example, python-r1 uses subshells created by multiprocessing.eclass > to implement parallel "sub-phase" functions, any of which may call > die on failure. > Are there any objections to removing this warning from the > devmanual? PMS doesn't guarantee that die works correctly in a subshell: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-12800011.3.3 So the devmanual agrees with the spec, and the eclasses need to be fixed. Ulrich
