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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 'exec' runs shell functions and builtins
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:53:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170726135338.07aa2ae8@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd2a215e-5832-f135-c69d-a1f4e1a6c99e@inlv.org>

This clarifies the normal behaviour.

diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index 333db1c..cbaf67a 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -675,6 +675,10 @@ executed.
 See ifzman(the section `Precommand Modifiers' in zmanref(zshmisc))\
 ifnzman(noderef(Precommand Modifiers)).
 
+If the option tt(POSIX_BUILTINS) is not set, var(command) may be
+interpreted as a shell builtin command or shell function: this is run as
+normal (as if tt(exec) were not present), then the shell exits.
+
 cindex(redirection, current shell's I/O)
 If var(command) is omitted but any redirections are specified,
 then the redirections will take effect in the current shell.

pws


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-26 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20170725221050epcas4p131de822f47289e279c7de12de0d6c127@epcas4p1.samsung.com>
2017-07-25 21:49 ` Martijn Dekker
2017-07-26  9:23   ` Peter Stephenson
2017-07-26  9:27     ` Peter Stephenson
2017-07-26 12:53   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2017-08-04 15:34     ` Stephane Chazelas
2017-07-26 17:46   ` Bart Schaefer
2017-07-26 17:48     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-07-27  9:02     ` Peter Stephenson
2017-07-28 17:58       ` Bart Schaefer
2017-08-11 15:10         ` Kamil Dudka
2017-08-11 15:25           ` Peter Stephenson
2017-08-14  7:19             ` Kamil Dudka

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