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sr #108191: bash drops errexit option in sourced file

Submitter:  Robert Schiele <schiele>
Submitted:  Thu 29 Nov 2012 10:46:48 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Done
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Fri 13 Nov 2015 02:44:46 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in bash-4.3.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Thu 29 Nov 2012 10:46:48 AM UTC, original submission:  

While normally sourced files have identical options set like the invoking environment this is not true if the sourcing is done from within a function foo that was called with something like:

foo && true

The following example demonstrates this:

$ cat bug
#!/bin/bash
set -e

int()
{
    echo A: $-
    . source
    echo D: $-
}

echo Broken:
int && true

echo OK:
int
$ cat source
echo B: $-
false
echo C: $-
$ bash bug
Broken:
A: ehB
B: hB
C: hB
D: ehB
OK:
A: ehB
B: ehB
$

This error showed up in bash 4.0 first and was not present in 3.2 or older.

As you can see in the invocation "int && true" the flag is still set inside the function but magically disappears once the file is sourced, while in the second incocation "int" everything behaves as expected. Apparently something gets broken when the exit on error is temporarily disabled for the chained command "int && true" because while it gets properly restored within the function itself it disappears again when sourcing the other file.

Robert Schiele <schiele>

 

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