ERR trap inheritance in command substitution

Hi! It seems that in bash version 4.0.33(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) (from Ubuntu 9.04), ERR traps are not inherited by functions that are called via command substitution. I expected inheritance to apply in this case since the documentation of 'set -E' promises inheritance of the ERR trap for

Told to report this bug here.

Hello, I downloaded the bash-80 file from Apple and encountered this configuration error: checking wchar.h usability... no checking wchar.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: wchar.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING:

Re: Told to report this bug here.

On 1/8/10 3:50 PM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: Hello, I downloaded the bash-80 file from Apple and encountered this configuration error: Aside from the fact that the bash-80 tar file available from Apple is packaged by Apple, this doesn't exactly look like a bash problem:

Re: ERR trap inheritance in command substitution

On 1/8/10 12:50 PM, Stefan Götz wrote: Hi! It seems that in bash version 4.0.33(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) (from Ubuntu 9.04), ERR traps are not inherited by functions that are called via command substitution. I expected inheritance to apply in this case since the documentation of

missing dep in lib/glob/Makefile.in

lib/glob/glob.c uses shell.h and pathnames.h --- bash-4.1/lib/glob/Makefile.in +++ bash-4.1/lib/glob/Makefile.in @@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ mostlyclean: clean -( cd doc $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) $@ ) +# Dependencies + +${BUILD_DIR}/pathnames.h: ${BUILD_DIR}/config.h ${BUILD_DIR}/Makefile Makefile +

Re: ulimit and ssh?

Thanks Bob. All the explanation were very helpful. Now I feel I have a good understanding of this little peculiarity of ssh. I agree with you that avoiding quoting altogether is simpler. But I am curious guy and learning for the sake of better understanding is also important to me. Bob