Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: normal An example from the austin group mailing-list, that fails with bash when it is run as "bash" (not as "sh"):
vin% bash -c 'set -e ; z=$(false;echo foo) ; echo $z' foo vin% I don't see why this non-standard behavior would be wanted. So, I suppose this is a bug. ksh93, pdksh, posh and zsh all output nothing. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 5 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.31 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20090124-1 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages bash recommends: ii bash-completion 20080705 programmable completion for the ba Versions of packages bash suggests: ii bash-doc 3.2-4 Documentation and examples for the -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
