Re: set -e and subshells

[Jon Salz]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 21:39 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jon Salz wrote:
> > I'm noticing a difference in behavior between Solaris 9's sh and GNU
> > bash, and was wondering if this is a bug or a feature.
> 
> I believe Solaris' sh is the Bourne shell.  I am told that to get a
> POSIX shell on Solaris you would need to invoke /usr/XPG4/bin/sh.  Can
> you try your experiment with Solaris' POSIX shell?
> 
>   /usr/XPG4/bin/sh -exc 'for x in a b c; do ( false ); echo status is $?; 
> done'
> 
> For what it is worth HP-UX /bin/sh behaves the same as bash for this
> case.
> 
> Bob
> 

Sure:

/usr/xpg4/bin/sh -exc 'for x in a b c; do ( false ); echo status is $?; done'
+ false

- Jon