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From: | Matthew Woehlke |
Subject: | Re: A few man page fixes from RHEL-5 |
Date: | Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:03:37 -0600 |
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Tomas Janousek wrote:
these three patches have been accepted into RHEL-5.2 and I think they may be worth including in bash upstream. +Also, please note that while executing in non-interactive mode and while in +.I posix +mode, any special builtin (like \fB.\fP, \fB:\fP, \fBbreak\fP, +\fBcontinue\fP, \fBeval\fP, \fBexec\fP, \fBexit\fP, \fBexport\fP, +\fBreadonly\fP, \fBreturn\fP, \fBset\fP, \fBshift\fP, \fBsource\fP, +\fBtimes\fP, \fBtrap\fP, \fBunset\fP) exiting with a non-zero status +causes the shell to stop execution.
Doesn't 'exec' replace the process? I get the others (I think), but I don't understand what shell is left to "stop execution" after an exec.
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