On 4/7/17 6:56 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote: > A second thing: > > $ mksh -o posix -c 'break; echo $?' > mksh: break: can't break > 0 > $ mksh -o posix -c 'continue; echo $?' > mksh: continue: can't continue > 0 > > 'break' and 'continue' are POSIX "special builtins", meaning if they > fail they should cause the shell to exit, at least in POSIX mode.
Posix explicitly makes this case unspecified. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/