Exit on error ignoring subshell exit status

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Exit on error ignoring subshell exit status:

Setting shell option set -e (set -o errexit) , a script does not exit if an error occurs within a subshell using the subshell command (false)

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
Bash 3.2-32.el5

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