From: DervishD <zsh@dervishd.net>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Exception handling and "trap" vs. TRAPNAL()
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:13:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051002081345.GB67@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051002044052.ZM28373@candle.brasslantern.com>
Hi Bart :)
* Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> dixit:
> Otherwise, the normal effect of the signal is produced;
>
> This is clearly inaccurate. If it were accurate, a non-zero return
> from TRAPHUP, TRAPABRT, or TRAPALRM (among others) ought to cause the
> shell to exit. This demonstrably does not happen. What *does* happen
> is that all levels of nested loop are broken (as if by the "break N"
> command with a sufficiently large N) and the shell is forced to behave
> as if a shell-level error occurred.
I haven't tested that. But I see your point.
I'm starting to think the same: it's a documentation problem, not
a code problem (although eliminating the special case for TRAPNAL
doesn't sound bad...).
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20050930124130.45eb0463.pws@csr.com>
[not found] ` <20051001153756.GA12183@DervishD>
2005-10-01 18:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-01 19:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-10-01 20:41 ` DervishD
2005-10-01 22:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-02 8:06 ` DervishD
2005-10-01 20:28 ` DervishD
2005-10-02 4:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-02 8:13 ` DervishD [this message]
2005-10-02 19:09 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-10-02 19:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-02 23:00 ` DervishD
2005-10-03 1:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-03 8:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-10-03 14:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-03 15:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-10-03 16:50 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-03 9:01 ` DervishD
2005-10-03 16:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-03 17:59 ` DervishD
2005-10-04 16:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-04 17:29 ` DervishD
2005-10-04 17:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-10-04 17:46 ` DervishD
2005-10-01 8:01 DervishD
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2005-10-01 7:45 DervishD
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