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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG: failure in "vcs_info prompt" aborts precmd function
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:44:00 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, I don't know WHY $(<notafile) was made a fatal error.

Looks like most redirection errors are fatal, so from that point of view
this would be consistent.  However, from the other point of view,
$(<...) might be thought to be faking up a subshell, in which case it
probably shouldn't be.  I suppose that just never got discussed before.

The principle of least surprise perhaps says it doesn't look like it should
be fatal, therefore it shouldn't be.

pws