Re: recent CVS: 'command .' permanently overrides PPs
Martijn Dekker dixit: > One of the recent commits introduced a new bug: if a dot script is sourced > with > 'command .', the positional parameters are permanently overridden by whatever > they were at the point of sourcing, and any changes to them are ignored. Ouch, so it’s not all that easy… thanks, fixed. bye, //mirabilos -- [16:04:33] bkix: "veni vidi violini" [16:04:45] bkix: "ich kam, sah und vergeigte"...
recent CVS: 'command .' permanently overrides PPs
One of the recent commits introduced a new bug: if a dot script is sourced with 'command .', the positional parameters are permanently overridden by whatever they were at the point of sourcing, and any changes to them are ignored. $ cat >test.mksh set -- one two shift printf '[%s]\n' "$#" "$@" $ mksh -c 'command . ./test.mksh' dummy oh dear this is not good [6] [oh] [dear] [this] [is] [not] [good] -- modernish -- harness the shell https://github.com/modernish/modernish
