Bug#935115: bash: [regression] passing variable assignments to functions broken in POSIX mode, violating POSIX

posix issue because posix doesn't have anything to say about local variables. So thanks for the report, and I'll look at the local variable issue. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Bug#519165: [Fwd: Bug#519165: bash 4 regression]

lot of existing > scripts. Can't win, can you? :-) When bash does something different from historical shell behavior, it either gets slammed because the difference exists or because people write scripts that depend on the difference. :-) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lern

Bug#357260: bash-doc: GFDL documentation with cover texts (forwarded from Sven Joachim)

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Bug#320036: bash exits 0 on errors reading stdin (and perhaps other scripts) (forwarded from Ian Jackson)

the shell exits. The exit value is $?, which is changed by the last command (pipeline) executed or by a signal. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...L