From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: zsh syntax check fails on correct if [[ usage (rhbz 966911)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:12:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131018201228.7b29ff4a@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131018163336.5b9beef3@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:33:36 +0100
Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> It looks like when $(...) doesn't run anything
> because of NO_EXEC it's keeping the status value from the parent shell,
> which isn't useful. (That's where the test above comes into the problem
> --- it's setting the internal status to 1.) I think we need to
> initialise the status to 0 after the fork.
No, that's not right, and there's a check for it in D08cmdsubst.ztst.
false
echo `echo $?`
0:Non-empty command substitution inherits status
>1
We *do* need to inherit the status. To go down this route we'd need
to detect that nothing was being executed and set the status explicitly
to zero, which we do in some cases, but not for NOEXEC.
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-18 19:12 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 [this message]
2013-10-18 15:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-10-18 15:56 ` Peter Stephenson
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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