Re: [BUG] 'trap' is not quite POSIX compliant

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>]

On 2/13/16 10:45 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:

> By the way, dash and zsh, as well as bash in non-POSIX mode, also accept
> the counterintuitive and non-POSIX-compliant form "trap EXIT" to unset
> the trap, but other shells don't: bash (POSIX), yash and ksh93 produce
> an error, while mksh/lksh silently ignore that form. What a mess...

The `trap EXIT' is historical Bourne shell behavior, though Posix makes it
an error.

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