Re: set -e, bad substitutions, and trap EXIT

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/6/12 8:18 PM, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is this a bug?  In the script below, I'm using a variable to control whether 
> the script uses set -e or not, because the behavior is dependent on whether 
> set -e is set.  When the script hits the bad substitution, it runs the exit 
> handler and then exits as expected.  However, with set -e, the exit status 
> for the script as a whole is wrong - it exits with 0 even though the script 
> is aborting.  That's completely the opposite of what I'd expect.  Without set 
> -e in force, it all works as expected.

Yes, it's a bug.  When -e is in effect, the exit status is not set before
the shell exits.  When it isn't, the code path taken results in the correct
exit status.

Here's a patch that solves this particular problem.

Chet
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err-trap-exit-status.patch
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