Bas Wijnen <wij...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:27:45PM +0530, V.Krishn wrote:
>> Conforming scripts shall not specify the "exit on error" option (i.e. >> set -e) when sourcing this file, or calling any of the commands thus >> made available. > From the bugs you cite, the consensus in Debian seems to be that this is > an unreasonable requirement which leads to buggy code. I've found multiple bugs in Debian init scripts due to misuse of set -e, and in general believe it's a bad idea for init scripts. I wouldn't personally ban it entirely (so I think LSB takes the wrong approach here and would be better off specifing the behavior they want), since people who are very careful can write init scripts that use it properly, but in general I wouldn't recommend it. There are many "expected" failures in a Debian-Policy-compliant init script, and if you use set -e, you have to handle them all, very carefully. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8738lug5jf....@windlord.stanford.edu
