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Subject: Re: BUG: failure in "vcs_info prompt" aborts precmd function
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:03:59 +0100
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Bart wrote:
> It's pretty easy to make it behave like a failed external command; can
> anyone recall why it wasn't, other than to avoid allocating an empty
> linked list?  It has been a fatal error since before revision control
> was in use.  It is possible something really depends on being stopped
> by this error?

I'd think it was unlikely.
Neither bash or ksh (88 or 93) treat it as a fatal error.

I'd vote for applying the patch.

Oliver