From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 05:28:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t5500-fetch-pack: remove local (bashism) usage.
Message-ID: <20060529052828.GB24077@localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20060526122317.GC5372@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:06:17PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
> > None of the variables seem to conflict, so local was unnecessary.
> 
> BTW, dash supports (and has always supported) local which is a quite
> useful feature.

Cool.  Hmm... pdksh seems to support it here (Debian sid).  I'm pretty
sure local is not part of the POSIX spec, though; and I have seen
/bin/sh that don't support it.

-- 
Eric Wong