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authorJari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>2009-02-19 22:21:29 +0000
committerJari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>2009-09-12 16:47:02 +0000
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@@ -312,3 +312,9 @@ bash-2.0 were significant.)
41. Beginning with bash-4.0, when one of the commands in a pipeline is killed
by a SIGINT while executing a command list, the shell acts as if it
received the interrupt.
+
+42. Bash-4.0 changes the handling of the set -e option so that the shell exits
+ if a pipeline fails (and not just if the last command in the failing
+ pipeline is a simple command). This is not as Posix specifies. There is
+ work underway to update this portion of the standard; the bash-4.0
+ behavior attempts to capture the consensus at the time of release.