Exit status 0 when the file is moved out from under a script

[Rob Ewaschuk]

I'm running:

GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Kernel 2.4.22 on i686


When running a bash script from NFS, and a stale NFS file handle is
generated (in my case from saving over the script while it's running,
which is indeed a bad habit), the script dies with exit status zero. 
This should exit with a non-zero status, since it is an error
condition.


Here's the last bit of an strace from a script doing just that:
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
read(255, 0x80ef008, 8176)              = -1 ESTALE (Stale NFS file handle)
exit_group(0)                           = ?

-Rob

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