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| Function Inner | |
| { | |
| [CmdletBinding()] | |
| Param () | |
| Try | |
| { | |
| throw "Inner exception" | |
| } | |
| Catch | |
| { | |
| Return $null | |
| } | |
| Return "yep" | |
| } | |
| Function Outer | |
| { | |
| [CmdletBinding()] | |
| Param () | |
| Try | |
| { | |
| $a = Inner -ErrorAction Stop -ErrorVariable "innerErr" | |
| } | |
| Catch | |
| { | |
| } | |
| if ($a -eq $null) | |
| { | |
| Write-Error "An error occurred" | |
| } | |
| } | |
| Outer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable myvar | |
| $myvar |
That is truly bizarre behavior.
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Running in PSv4, the errorobject ($myvar) only contains one error record. Running in PSv5, the inner exception from the child function is also surfaced.