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Re: "set -e" in subshell is now reliable
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: "set -e" in subshell is now reliable |
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Date: |
23 Feb 2001 16:17:17 +0100 |
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Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello, Akim!
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> You recently applied a patch to tests/target-cflags.test without
> mentioning it in ChangeLog. Maybe you didn't mean to commit that change?
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> If you did, then two small fixes are needed:
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> 1) You should run ./foo instead /foo
> 2) bash could not detect it because "set -e" doesn't propagate to the
> subshell. I only could catch it on FreeBSD 4.0.
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> I think it's better to stay on the safe side and eliminate the subshell. I
> tried "set -e" in subshell but it didn't work as it should (with
> bash-1.14.7).
Sorry, my big mistake. Sneaked in.