From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: setvar MIA? Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:10:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4D2C810E.4070707@redhat.com> References: <4D2C7D44.1060904@phat.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig38CE1E16B666556A221D0FF7" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29680 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756163Ab1AKQLC (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:11:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D2C7D44.1060904@phat.za.net> Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: Aragon Gouveia Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig38CE1E16B666556A221D0FF7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01/11/2011 08:54 AM, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'm working on making a number of shell scripts cross compatible betwee= n > FreeBSD and Linux, but one thorn in my side has been dash's lack of a > setvar builtin. Does anyone know if this is a work in progress, or a > decidedly void feature in dash? Decidedly missing. POSIX doesn't require it. Neither bash nor ksh provides setvar as a builtin, either. And what does setvar do anyways? Perhaps it is some alias or shell function that you have inherited from startup files in one of your other shells, but I've never heard of a 'setvar' program. So why bloat dash to include it? --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig38CE1E16B666556A221D0FF7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNLIEOAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqcHwH+gJ3yKz2J5qrO+/+mPR7seic PC0iJ7QPtwGmzYtB77kNytjnU1xBGtENkyUdOhdr/ZrCbYtrf5mEI5eqMuqjFh4/ YU7jCgUCQGzSZJGcFKFhiK9OL5b7/sEyCjSPtoGIdbzlGJIYB9WLWC4AFkeN8R2n dOR7Vx9JPeR7vbSxi9uYFQlblFDTXfzrqpOogOSjL2SJtiO19obixJxk+cr7vifx bR4qnDOb3IZC78v4pDMVL2/4SJQJqah2SRGEsDUSVh81lb17p5LyzODgb5YI7n/h qrxyjUybpgx/4G7iokrFk5B9SvdXTVmLI6hKJnXuWS3+jsVm8zBx/+cimVe9vj0= =eksO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig38CE1E16B666556A221D0FF7--