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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:30:04 +0100
From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To: Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>
Subject: Re: sh: "local" assignment from command loses exit status
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Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net> wrote:

> In sh, if I use a single statement to declare a local variable and
> assign the output of a command to it, the exit status of that command is
> lost.  For example:
>=20
>     should_return_false() {
>         local var1=3D`false`
>     }
>=20
> The function should return non-zero, but it returns zero.

The function should return the return code of the last command.
In your example, the last command is "local".

Fabian

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