Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mar 12, 2014, 19:16 UTC
Message-ID: <87wqfzi5wa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1ty7me6a.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-)
>
> -- >8 --
>
> "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment
> variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of
> the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function
> (most notably, "test_must_fail");

No? bash:

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ zippo()

> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ XXX=8 zippo 8 8

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ /bin/dash $ zippo()

> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }

$ XXX=8 zippo 8 8 $

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ /bin/ash $ zippo()

> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }

$ XXX=8 zippo 8 8 $

Seems to work just fine with a set of typical shells.

-- 
David Kastrup