From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 07:31:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t5500-fetch-pack: remove local (bashism) usage.
Message-ID: <20060529073137.GB22452@gondor.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20060529052828.GB24077@localdomain>

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:28:28PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
>
> 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.

It is true that the current POSIX spec does not specify it.  However,
all useful POSIX-compliant shells on Linux (i.e., excluding those
shells that exist only to test POSIX compliance) support it and it
is used by a large corpus of existing Linux scripts.

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