Re: enforcing xautolock

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:

> My first thought was that this is related to `set -e`, which would
> prevent the subshell to ever execute kill, since the killing of
> xautolock would be a failure. However, shell options do not
> propagate to subshells, so the xautolock-containing shell is +e by
> default.

My experiments indicate otherwise:

$ for sh in sh bash dash posh ksh zsh; do $sh -e -c '(false; echo foo)'; done
$ for sh in sh bash dash posh ksh zsh; do $sh -c '(false; echo foo)'; done
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
$ for sh in sh bash dash posh ksh zsh; do $sh -e -c '(set +e; false; echo foo)'; done
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo
foo

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