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Re: broken pipe message with setopt PRINT_EXIT_VALUE

Bart Schaefer wrote on Sat, 29 May 2021 15:52 +00:00:
> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 4:44 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

This implies that it's a bug that «{ false;  true }» prints a PRINT_EXIT_VALUE
message for «false».

Cheers,

Daniel
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