On 10/4/17 8:52 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> 
>>> But this is what you get with ksh93:
>>>
>>> ksh93 -c 'a=0; a() { local a; a=12; } ; a; echo $a'
>>> ksh93[1]: local: not found [No such file or directory]
>>> 12
>>
>> It doesn't work even if you use `typeset', which is accepted.
> 
> But this would prevent ksh93 from being used as /bin/sh on various Linux 
> distros.

So? Why is that a problem here? We're talking about Posix conformance.

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