From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Fabian <bafain@gmail.com>,
Quint Guvernator <quintus.public@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New GSoC microproject ideas
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:44:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140312204453.GA9702@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87siqni25m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:37:41PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Try:
> >
> > zippo() {
> > echo $XXX
> > }
> > XXX=8 zippo
> > zippo
> >
> > XXX remains set after the first call under dash (but not bash). I
> > believe "ash" has the same behavior.
>
> Yes. I would lean towards considering this a bug. But I agree that it
> does not help.
Dash's behavior is POSIX (and "bash --posix" behaves the same way).
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/137095
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-12 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 11:48 New GSoC microproject ideas Michael Haggerty
2014-03-12 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-12 19:16 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-12 19:21 ` Jeff King
2014-03-12 20:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-12 20:44 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-03-12 21:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-13 17:06 ` Michael Haggerty
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