Re: bash giving wrong message for indicated failure (was Re: Unhelpful behaviors in 4.2.10(1))

[Chet Ramey]

> > That's fine -- if the error message points at the included file as "not 
> > returning a > 'true' value.
> > 
> > It doesn't.  It points to a conditional in the previous file.

Note that the error message wasn't generated by bash: you generated it
yourself based on $BASH_COMMAND and the various LINENO variables.  That
implies where information needs to be saved and restored around calls
to eval/./source.

That can be fixed, and will be for the next bash release.

Chet

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