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commit 74f93059738c647d8330814d67829315385704fa
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Nov 18 06:30:37 2008 -0700

    Document a Solaris /bin/sh bug with 'set -e'.
    
    * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Functions): Mention the bug.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    5 +++++
 doc/autoconf.texi |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 41f97d3..93c085c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-11-18  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       Document a Solaris /bin/sh bug with 'set -e'.
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Functions): Mention the bug.
+
 2008-11-17  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        Detect empty list in AS_FOR.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 07db254..90e6cee 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -14660,6 +14660,15 @@ $ @kbd{ash -c 'foo()@{ echo $?; @}; trap foo 0; (exit 
2); exit 2'; echo $?}
 2
 @end example
 
+Not all shells treat shell functions as simple commands impacted by
address@hidden -e}, for example with Solaris 10 @command{bin/sh}:
+
address@hidden
+$ @kbd{bash -c 'f()@{ return 1; @}; set -e; f; echo oops}
+$ @kbd{/bin/sh -c 'f()@{ return 1; @}; set -e; f; echo oops}
+oops
address@hidden example
+
 Shell variables and functions may share the same namespace, for example
 with Solaris 10 @command{/bin/sh}:
 


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