On 10/21/11 4:41 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> URL:
> <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7638>
>
> Summary: exit-code triggered error behavior changed in 4.1:
> incompat w/earlier versions of POSIX
> Project: The GNU Bourne-Again SHell
> Submitted by: law
> Submitted on: Fri 21 Oct 2011 01:41:05 PM PDT
> Category: None
> Priority: 5 - Normal
> Status: None
> Privacy: Public
> Assigned to: None
> Originator Email:
> Open/Closed: Open
> Discussion Lock: Any
>
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> Details:
>
> The new version of bash in non-posix mode (this is likely changed in POSIX
> mode as well, but in non-posix mode it didn't need to be, pointlessly, made
> incompatible) has broken compatibility with the early POSIX specs in following
> the newer 'portable OS **[non]** interoperability Xchange' specification'.
Really?
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