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bug: $? after empty command

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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: bug: $? after empty command
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:12:20 +0000 (UTC)
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POSIX requires that the execution of an empty command change $? to 0, as shown
here with bash:

$ zsh -c 'foo=; false; $foo; echo $?'
1
$ bash -c 'foo=; false; $foo; echo $?'
0

-- 
Eric Blake

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