misiek: rc-scripts DEVELOPMENT

[Jan Rekorajski]

[poniedziałek, 11 czerwiec 2001], Michal Moskal napisał(a):

> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 05:17:27PM +0200, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> > > > use typeset instead local (baggins)
> > > 
> > > Why? local is in SUS, typeset is not.
> > 
> > man ksh
> > man ksh93
> > man bash
> 
> so?:) didn't seen anything intresting there. 

so you didn't try hard enough :>

from pdksh.1:
	local='typeset'

from bash.1:
	local [option] [name[=value] ...]
	typeset [-afFirx] [-p] [name[=value]]

in ksh93 there is no 'local', only typeset which does what the
'local' in pdksh do.

> Well i was wrong there is no sign of local nor typeset in sus.
> However typeset is surly ksh extension, maybe if rc scripts were
> #!/bin/ksh... and for instance local is also implemented in ash. 

You are obviously wrong.

> anyway, manual pages for shells are misleading when it comes to
> standards...

And here you are right ;)

Jan
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