Re: [PATCH] make the doc of pipefail clear

[Han Pingtian <hanpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:53:38PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Apr 10,  9:16am, Han Pingtian wrote:
> } 
> } I think we can make the doc of pipefail more clear with this patch:
> 
> It might be more clear, but it's less correct.
> 
> Given
> 
>     setopt pipefail
>     ( exit 1 ) | ( exit 2 ) | ( exit 3 ) | ( exit 4 ) | ( exit 0 )
> 
> the original doc fully describes that the exit status of the entire
> pipeline is 4, whereas your change only states that it is "non-zero".
> 
> That part about "the rightmost" that you removed, is important.

Thanks. Now I understand the original document ...