From: Anthony Heading <aheading@jpmorgan.com>
To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Bug Report: Env Vars and shell functions
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:01:19 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199607121601.RAA13747@gmp-etpres1.uk.jpmorgan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199607121527.RAA09051@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jul 12, 96 05:27:28 pm
> They were not really cosmetic. Had you applied these you would not have
> received this. These SEGV's are all caused by DPUTS, since it seems that
> you did not applied the patch which replaces X to Y in DPUTS in zsh.h line
> 1314.
Damn. Sorry, then. It was late.
> > On a related note, should the following not restore IFS?
> >
> > sun4% IFS=@ set a@b@c@d; echo $IFS
> > @
>
> Here is what POSIX says:
>
> (2) Variable assignments specified with special built-in utilities
> shall remain in effect after the built-in completes; this shall
> not be the case with a regular built-in or other utility.
> [ and ten other reasons why it wouldn't work...]
Aha. There isn't a copy of the POSIX standard on the net, is there? Then I
could stop identifying spurious non-bugs. But IFS=$OLDIFS is so *ugly*.
> I'm writing these because these differences between zsh and POSIX are
> probably the most important ones. Other than that zsh is now mostly POSIX
> conformant (POSIX does not allow the MAGICEQUALS behaviour of the typeset
> family but all other shells (bash, ksh93 and pdksh) do that unles
> POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined).
Those are pretty useful to know. Thanks.
A
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-12 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-08 3:49 Peter Bray
1996-07-08 8:58 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-08 12:49 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-07-10 2:33 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-10 12:19 ` Vinnie Shelton
1996-07-10 13:45 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-11 22:11 ` Anthony Heading
1996-07-12 12:17 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-07-12 15:27 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-12 16:01 ` Anthony Heading [this message]
1996-07-12 17:18 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-12 17:43 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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