Author: gjb
Date: Wed May 7 21:39:01 2014
New Revision: 265615
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/265615
Log:
Document r264423, sh(1) changes in variable assignments
with 'local', 'export', and 'readonly'.
Helped by: jilles (thanks!)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Wed May 7
21:38:33 2014 (r265614)
+++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Wed May 7
21:39:01 2014 (r265615)
@@ -568,6 +568,17 @@
&man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
rewritten.</para>
+ <para revision="264423">The &man.sh.1; command interpreter has
+ been updated to expand assignments after
+ <literal>export</literal>, <literal>local</literal>, and
+ <literal>readonly</literal> differently. As result of this
+ change, variable assignment such as <literal>local
+ v=$1</literal> will assign the first positional
+ parameter to <literal>v</literal>, even if
+ <literal>$1</literal> contains spaces, and
+ <literal>local w=<replaceable>~/myfile</replaceable></literal>
+ will expand the tilde (<literal>~</literal>).</para>
+
<sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
<title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
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