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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: zsh syntax check fails on correct if [[ usage (rhbz 966911)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:56:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131018165614.48f399b7@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <131018084831.ZM8783@torch.brasslantern.com>

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:48:31 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> If you run the test as
> 
>     zsh -vxn /tmp/test.zsh
> 
> it becomes clear that zsh is actually executing some of the commands,
> and then returning the exit status of those commands rather than of
> the syntax check itself.

It's certainly forking, and I think it's peforming the assignments, and
it seems to perform the test.  The problem here is we don't actually
have a syntax checking mode, we just have a mode that tries to execute
as little as possible.  As little as possible isn't a very clear target.

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-18 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-18 14:02 Filip Krska
2013-10-18 15:33 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-10-18 19:12   ` Peter Stephenson
2013-10-18 15:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-18 15:56   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2013-10-18 19:20     ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-18 22:43       ` Peter Stephenson
2013-10-19 21:19         ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-19 21:46           ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-19 21:56           ` Peter Stephenson
2013-11-20 14:08             ` Filip Krska
2013-10-18 19:29   ` Peter Stephenson

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