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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:57:07 -0800
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Comments: In reply to Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
 "Re: zsh behavior when fork() failed" (Feb 26, 11:52am)
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On Feb 26, 11:52am, Bart Schaefer wrote:
}
} This also raises the question of whether a non-interactive shell should
} exit on a botched "exec" (see zsh-workers/30111 and subsequent thread,
} and comment on line 3364 excerpted below).

Interestingly, bash does not exit on an error in exec's argument list.