Re: RFC: Change to the way sh -x works?

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

This looks very useful to me. I guess SUS doesn't specify this?

> For this, stderr is remembered only when tracing turns from off to on,
> if it is on already, and another "set -x" is performed, nothing changes.
I can't unambigiously parse that. On second reading, treating the comma at 
the end of the first line more as a semicolon or full stop, I stumble over 
what "nothing changes" means: The shell treats this as a no-op or the shell 
behaves as without your change? From further reading, I guess it's a no-op.

> And yes, if tracing is off, "set -x 2>/tmp/trace-file" works as expected
This is brilliant!