A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1561 ====================================================================== Reported By: calestyo Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: Issue 8 drafts Issue ID: 1561 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: Christoph Anton Mitterer Organization: User Reference: Section: various Page Number: N/A Line Number: N/A Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2022-02-01 00:10 UTC Last Modified: 2022-02-01 20:52 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: clarify what kind of data shell variables need to be able to hold ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0005649) chet_ramey (reporter) - 2022-02-01 20:52 https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1561#c5649 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: 4) This has come up before and the current standard contains text to the effect that "applications shall tolerate the presence of such names." The consensus seems to be to pass them through to child processes in their environment but not attempt to create shell variables from them. It seems to me that arrays don't affect this: they're normal shell variables and have normal shell variable name restrictions. Shell functions do, since they can have nearly arbitrary names, the bash function name encoding aside. Bash tolerates such names by -- you guessed it -- creating shell functions from them. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2022-02-01 00:10 calestyo New Issue 2022-02-01 00:10 calestyo Name => Christoph Anton Mitterer 2022-02-01 00:10 calestyo Section => various 2022-02-01 00:10 calestyo Page Number => N/A 2022-02-01 00:10 calestyo Line Number => N/A 2022-02-01 19:33 mirabilos Note Added: 0005645 2022-02-01 19:44 calestyo Note Added: 0005647 2022-02-01 20:52 chet_ramey Note Added: 0005649 ======================================================================
