From: Rudolf Polzer <divverent@xonotic.org>
To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: temporary assignments vs shell function
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 07:59:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110801055941.GA10730@div0.qc.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110731221904.GA74938@stack.nl>
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:19:04AM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:09:15PM +0200, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> > I just retested with that very command, and yes, the FreeBSD /bin/sh
> > does behave the "non-POSIX" (and "obvious") way, and so does the
> > Solaris /bin/sh.
>
> Yes, FreeBSD /bin/sh is not POSIX compliant here. Because the current
> behaviour is explicitly documented and much more useful than the POSIX
> behaviour, I don't really like changing it ;-)
How is it more useful? I can't see any case where it'd help...
But I do understand it's defined like that in the spec, and that is what dash
should follow.
Best regards,
Rudolf Polzer
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 8:34 Bug: temporary assignments vs shell function Rudolf Polzer
2011-07-14 9:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-14 10:09 ` Rudolf Polzer
2011-07-14 10:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-31 22:19 ` Jilles Tjoelker
2011-08-01 5:59 ` Rudolf Polzer [this message]
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