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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dash drops exported bash functions
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:46:37 +0000
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2016-02-11 15:30:59 +0100, Makarius:
[...]
> The problem is a deeper one, though: export -f in bash no longer
> works for systems that have /bin/sh -> dash (i.e. Debian and
> Ubuntu).
[...]

Note that pdksh/posh/mksh also strip those variables which it
can't map to shell variable names (and have for decades).

-- 
Stephane