Redirection errors on subshells already did not abort the shell because
the redirection is executed in the subshell.
Other shells seem to agree that these redirection errors should not abort
the shell.
Also ensure that the redirections will be cleaned up properly in cases like
command eval '{ shift x; } 2>/dev/null'
Example:
{ echo bad; } </var/empty/x; echo good
Although simple commands without a command word (only assignments and/or
redirections) are much like special builtins, POSIX and most shells seem to
agree that redirection errors should not abort the shell in this case. Of
course, the assignments persist and assignment errors are fatal.
To get the old behaviour portably, use the ':' special builtin.
To get the new behaviour portably, given that there are no assignments, use
the 'true' regular builtin.
We currently ignore readonly status for assignments before regular builtins
and external programs (these assignments are not persistent anyway), so just
check that the readonly variable really is not changed.
The test depends on the command builtin changes for 'command :'.
* avoid unnecessary fork
* allow executing builtins via command
* executing a special builtin via command removes its special properties
Obtained from: NetBSD (parts)
Due to the amount of code removed by this, it seems that allowing unmatched
quotes was a deliberate imitation of System V sh and real ksh. Most other
shells do not allow unmatched quotes (e.g. bash, zsh, pdksh, NetBSD /bin/sh,
dash).
PR: bin/137657
