Re: bash

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:30:26 -0500

In article <3avdg2F6eldjnU1@news.dfncis.de>,
 Reiner Funck <reiner.funck@dwd.de> wrote:

> What happens with:
>
> echo $$; ( a.out; )
>
> 8093
> 27780 8093
>
> one subshell "fails", why?
>
> I have not found anything in man page.
>
> Many thanks for help, Reiner

The last command in a shell process can be executed using exec() rather
than fork() followed by exec(), since the exit status of a shell is
simply the exit status of its last command. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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