Re: [PATCH v2] Test t5560: Fix test when run with dash

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jan 15, 2010, 08:30 UTC
Message-ID: <4B5027B8.2090507@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1263537842-5792-1-git-send-email-tarmigan+git@gmail.com>

Tarmigan Casebolt schrieb:

>         REQUEST_METHOD="GET" some_shell_function

> I can't tell from my reading of the POSIX spec whether my usage was
> wrong or if dash is wrong,

According to POSIX, variables set as shown above for shell functions are not exported and retain their value after the function returns. I would not be surprised if dash got this right, and the tests fail because they were written for bash, which gets it wrong.

In particular,

f() { sh -c 'echo +$v+'; } v=x f echo +$v+ sh -c 'echo +$v+'"

Should print

++ +x+ ++

I can test only ash, bash, zsh, and ksh, of which only ksh gets it right.

-- Hannes

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