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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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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