G.raud dixit:
>Will you update the manpage, so that the fact that not all the
>environment is passed to subcommands is written explicitely? Maybe even
>even that it is so by conscious design? I read somewhere that a good
>documentation was one of the goals of mksh (or of MirBSD).
Hm, I think that it is already clear:
Parameters can be assigned values in a number of ways. First, the shell
implicitly sets some parameters like '#', 'PWD', and '$'; this is the
only way the special single character parameters are set. Second, parame-
ters are imported from the shell's environment at startup. Third, parame-
[…]
Parameters with the export attribute (set using the export or typeset -x
commands, or by parameter assignments followed by simple commands) are
put in the environment (see environ(7)) of commands run by the shell as
name=value pairs. The order in which parameters appear in the environment
of a command is unspecified. When the shell starts up, it extracts param-
eters and their values from its environment and automatically sets the
export attribute for those parameters.
But if anyone got a (britpick’d) patch for the manpage… maybe.
bye,
//mirabilos
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17:57 < jtsn> Der 25C3 ist lustig. Deutsche Vortragende brechen sich vor
deutschen Zuhörern auf Englisch einen ab. ;-) 18:01 < jtsn> Adolfs Werk
war sehr nachhaltig. ;-) 18:01 < jtsn> Das gab's nichtmal in der DDR,
das Deutsche mit Deutschen auf Russisch reden. ;-) (10x cnuke@)
