Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:16:53PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>> > Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-)
>> >
>> > -- >8 --
>> >
>> > "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment
>> > variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of
>> > the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function
>> > (most notably, "test_must_fail");
>>
>> No? bash:
>>
>> dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ zippo()
>> > {
>> > echo $XXX
>> > echo $XXX
>> > }
>> dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ XXX=8 zippo
>> 8
>> 8
>
> 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.
--
David Kastrup
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