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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Small bash issue
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:37:54 +0100
> 
> set -x
> echo tracing is on
> (set +x; echo tracing is off here)
> echo tracing should be back on now
> 
> after the subshell ends, debugging is STILL disabled, while
> it should be enabled.

Did that ever work, in _any_ port of Bash?

IIRC, the parenthesized commands require a fork in Bash, so the DJGPP
port has a grave difficulty to make them totally separated from the
main shell.  In particular, the PID reported by $$ is not what you'd
expect on Unix.