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return bultin ignores explicit exit value when used in DEBUG trap


From: Grisha Levit
Subject: return bultin ignores explicit exit value when used in DEBUG trap
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 23:06:14 -0800 (PST)
User-agent: G2/1.0

Not sure if this is a documentation bug or a functional one, but the man page 
does not seem to agree with the observed behavior for return when invoked in 
DEBUG traps.

return [n]
   Causes a function to stop executing and return the value specified
   by n to its caller.  If n is omitted, the return status is that of 
   the last command executed in the function body.
   ...
   If return is executed by a trap handler, the last command used to 
   determine the status is the last command executed before the trap 
   handler.
   ...
   If  return  is executed during a DEBUG trap, the last command used 
   to determine the status is the last command executed by the trap 
   handler before return was invoked.



It seems that when return is used in a DEBUG trap, any explicit return value 
used is ignored.

For example:

    fun1() { trap "trap - DEBUG; (exit 1); return"   DEBUG; :; }
    fun1; echo $?      # 1, as expected
    
    fun2() { trap "trap - DEBUG; (exit 1); return 2" DEBUG; :; }
    fun2; echo $?      # also 1!
    

The man page doesn't mention anything about the RETURN trap, but it seems to 
function the same way as the DEBUG trap does in this regard.

    fun3() { trap 'trap - RETURN; (exit 1); return 2' RETURN; (exit 3); return 
4; }
    fun3; echo $?      # also 1!



There's also a minor inconsistency between the help topic and the man page 
regarding which traps are inherited when functrace is on:

 -T      If  set,  any traps on DEBUG and RETURN are inherited by
          shell functions,  command  substitutions,  and  commands
          executed  in  a  subshell  environment.   The  DEBUG and
          RETURN traps are normally not inherited in such cases.

 -T      If set, the DEBUG trap is inherited by shell functions.


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