Re: [PATCH v2] exec: run final pipeline command in a subshell in sh mode

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 1:42 PM brian m. carlson
<sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I will tell you that as a practical matter, nobody writing code for sh
> expects the last command not to be run in a subshell and consequently
> lots of code is practically broken in this case with zsh as /bin/sh.

I believe you, but would be curious to see an example.

For what it's worth, I'm not opposed to this patch.  I think it's
pretty unlikely that anyone is invoking zsh as sh and still expecting
to be able to (for example) pipe into read to set variables in the
current shell.