Re: ksh Emulation Not Clearing Envariables

[Chris Jepeway <jepeway@blasted-heath.com>]

>>> POSIX wants the envariable to persist across invocations
>>> of the function "e"?  That seems...counter-intuitive.
>>
>> I can't find it in POSIX now, but it's controlled by the option
>> posix_builtins.  We could turn that off for ksh, but I'd like to know  
>> if
>> we really ever need to have it on by default.
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ 
> xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_09_05
>
> Where we see
>
> 	When a function is executed, it shall have the syntax-error and
> 	variable-assignment properties described for special built-in
> 	utilities in the enumerated list at the beginning of Special Built-In
> 	Utilities.
>
> One of those properties is:
>
> 	Variable assignments specified with special built-in utilities remain
> 	in effect after the built-in completes; this shall not be the case
> 	with a regular built-in or other utility.
Well...the variable assignment isn't occurring inside the function.
It's outside, put into the environment before the function is called.
Had the function looked like:

	e() {
		X=one
		echo $X
	}

	e ; echo "[$X]"

I would have expected to see

	one
	[one]

However, with this:

	e() {
		echo $X
	}

	X=one e ; echo "[$X]"

I'd expect to see

	one
	[]

I don't see how the spec can be read to mean "envariables
poked into a command shall persist across command invocations
when that command is a shell function."

> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@po.cwru.edu     
> http://tiswww.tis.cwru.edu/~chet/
Chris.