Automated submission of kernel panic reports

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 4 03:54:49 UTC 2013


On 11/03/13 19:13, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Wow, I had no idea.  I guess it never occurred to me that 'local' would
>> even *have* an exit status...
> 
> It can even exit non-zero:
> $ foo() { readonly bar; local bar="f"; echo $?; }; foo;
> local: bar: is read only
> 2

Aha!  I was thinking "but how could it ever fail?", and read-only variables
never occurred to me.

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Colin Percival
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