Subject: bin/1444: /bin/sh: "return" in dotted scripts
To: netbsd problem report <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ju\"rgen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/07/1995 16:21:49
>Number: 1444
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /bin/sh: "return" in dotted script
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 7 17:50:02 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ju"rgen Fluk
>Organization:
marco GmbH, 85221 Dachau, Germany
>Release: 95/08/26
>Environment:
System: NetBSD robin 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (ROBIN) #2: Fri Sep 1 12:18:58 MSZ 1995 root@robin:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ROBIN i386
>Description:
bash (1.12.1) and ksh (86/03/06) allow use of "return"
in dotted scripts to leave the script. SunOS 4.1.2 /bin/sh
complains "cannot return when not in function". NetBSD /bin/sh
simply ignores this "return".
>How-To-Repeat:
cat <<EOT >xxx
return
echo hello
EOT
chmod +x xxx
. xxx
--
louis@dachau.marco.de in real life: Ju"rgen Fluk
marco GmbH, 85221 Dachau tel: +49 8131 516142
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
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