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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>,
	Samuel Bancal <Samuel.Bancal@epfl.ch>
Subject: Re: broken pipe message with setopt PRINT_EXIT_VALUE
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 08:52:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7b4-NFtaphGp06PPw4u24wmFUJndxUBPEbARnTDD0+_mQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210529114352.GB25290@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>

On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 4:44 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>
> Bart Schaefer wrote on Fri, May 28, 2021 at 14:26:25 -0700:
> > PRINT_EXIT_VALUE is disabled in subshells because subshells do not
> > normally maintain a jobs table like an interactive shell does.
>
> That's the reason in implementation terms, but what's the reason in
> user-facing terms?

Command grouping.  The exit value of the subshell is still printed by
the parent if the whole group's status is nonzero.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-29 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-28 17:06 Samuel Bancal
2021-05-28 20:01 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-05-28 21:26   ` Bart Schaefer
2021-05-29  6:37     ` Samuel Bancal
2021-05-29 11:43     ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-05-29 15:52       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-05-30 12:29         ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-05-30 17:44           ` Bart Schaefer

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