(Sorry, this is reply to Chet Ramey, but I just subscribed to the list and web interface does not contain enough info to get threads right)
> It's an interesting question. There's a question about whether or not this > behavior, which is more-or-less traditional, is a bug at all. I would certainly be satisfied by just mentioning this 'feature' in the bash man page. People would not be so surprised as I was, and it would save time to those who will consider sending a bug report in the future. Downloading and compiling latest bash was easy :-), but we still can save this exercise to others. Regards, Vaclav Hanzl
