Re: [Help-bash] Option execfail does not work in subshells

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/9/17 8:43 AM, R. Diez wrote:

> There does not seem to be a valid reason for execfail to not work in a
> subshell. Should I create a bug for this? (I am assuming that there is a
> public bug tracker for Bash).

This has been the case for so long there is probably code that depends on
it. I'm reluctant to change it now in the absence of a compelling reason
to do so.

> There is one other thing that I noticed. When the 'exec' calls redirects
> stdout and stderr, they remain redirected after 'exec' fails. I resorted to
> saving and restoring their file descriptors in this scenario. However, I
> think that this fact should be clearly documented, because, at the moment,
> after reading the docs you tend to believe that such a permanent
> redirection should only be the case if you specify no command to run in the
> 'exec' calls.

I'll take a look.

Chet

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