From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:49:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: Bug in bash 2.03's handling of compound commands?
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> I think there may be a bug in bash 2.03's handling of compound commands.
> For instance, if 'bob' does not exist, then you'd expect $? to be set to
> 127 after trying to execute it. However, I found the following:
> 
> DJGPP: "(bob); echo $?" -> 0 displayed
> Linux: "(bob); echo $?" -> 127 displayed
> 

Hmm,
I get 127 from this snippet with both Bash 2.03 and Bash 2.04.

Mark