On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:51:34PM +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > Then, the "unset", instead of unsetting IFS, actually pops a > layer off the stack.
> Credits to Dan Douglas > (https://www.mail-archive.com/miros-mksh@mirbsd.org/msg00707.html) > for finding the bug. He did find a use for it though (get the > value of a variable from the caller's scope). Isn't this exactly the same as the "upvar" trick that Freddy Vulto discovered? http://www.fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Passing_variables_by_reference