Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As an exercise in learning a small part of the OpenSolaris codebase, I
> decided to add the ability to export variables via the "commonly
> accepted" syntax that many shells support to /usr/src/cmd/sh (the
> default Solaris shell I believe). I spent at least a few hours today
> reading through the Bourne shell source code, trying to understand
> exactly how it parses each command, what process it goes through, etc.
>
> So, after applying the patch linked below you should be able to:
>
> * Export variables the original way:
>
> FOO=1; export FOO
I am not sure if this would be a good idea as currently the Solaris /bin/sh
helps to detect non-portable code.
Users should rather use:
FOO=1 export FOO
Jörg
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