[ On Sunday, August 11, 2002 at 21:14:13 (+0100), David Laight wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: correct shell behaviour?
>
> Ok then what about:
> 
> $ (exit 2)
> $ a=`echo a; exit 3`
> $ echo $?

"0"

> The expectation here is that $? refers to the `` pipeline.
> ie it is possible to test the result of such items.

No, absolutely not.  The last list (pipeline, whatever) is the
assignment statement.

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