* Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set?
@ 2012-01-30 20:21 Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 20:43 ` Frank Terbeck
2012-01-31 9:43 ` Peter Stephenson
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Felipe Contreras @ 2012-01-30 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers; +Cc: Felipe Contreras
Hi,
This works on bash
---
_test ()
{
local t=$(echo foo --bar)
}
_test
---
But not in zsh, with sh emulation. Enabling KSH_TYPESET makes it work.
Shouldn't it be enabled with sh emulation?
BTW. What exactly is 'emulate sh' supposed to emulate? I would like to
run that shell to check for compatibility issues, and apparently it's
not bash.
Cheers.
--
Felipe Contreras
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set?
2012-01-30 20:21 Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set? Felipe Contreras
@ 2012-01-30 20:43 ` Frank Terbeck
2012-01-30 21:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-31 9:43 ` Peter Stephenson
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Frank Terbeck @ 2012-01-30 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Felipe Contreras; +Cc: zsh-workers
Felipe Contreras wrote:
[...]
> local t=$(echo foo --bar)
[...]
> But not in zsh, with sh emulation. Enabling KSH_TYPESET makes it work.
>
> Shouldn't it be enabled with sh emulation?
>
> BTW. What exactly is 'emulate sh' supposed to emulate? I would like to
> run that shell to check for compatibility issues, and apparently it's
> not bash.
"emulate sh" is POSIX shell emulation (we did amend this mode in the
past to work as much as possible as POSIX describes). Neither typeset
nor local are part of POSIX (at least not SUSv3 - I don't know about
v4).
So, I don't think it should be enabled.
FWIW, dash and posh behave like zsh's sh-mode here. Ksh93 doesn't work
at all, because it has no `local' (only typeset). Mksh, pdksh and bash
work like KSH_TYPESET was set in zsh.
Regards, Frank
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* Re: Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set?
2012-01-30 20:43 ` Frank Terbeck
@ 2012-01-30 21:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 22:17 ` Frank Terbeck
2012-01-30 22:20 ` Vincent Lefevre
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Felipe Contreras @ 2012-01-30 21:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Terbeck; +Cc: zsh-workers, Felipe Contreras
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
> [...]
>> local t=$(echo foo --bar)
> [...]
>> But not in zsh, with sh emulation. Enabling KSH_TYPESET makes it work.
>>
>> Shouldn't it be enabled with sh emulation?
>>
>> BTW. What exactly is 'emulate sh' supposed to emulate? I would like to
>> run that shell to check for compatibility issues, and apparently it's
>> not bash.
>
> "emulate sh" is POSIX shell emulation (we did amend this mode in the
> past to work as much as possible as POSIX describes). Neither typeset
> nor local are part of POSIX (at least not SUSv3 - I don't know about
> v4).
>
> So, I don't think it should be enabled.
But it wouldn't hurt either, right? It would be nice to have some
'bash' emulation mode, but since there isn't any, why not enable this
harmless option?
> FWIW, dash and posh behave like zsh's sh-mode here. Ksh93 doesn't work
> at all, because it has no `local' (only typeset). Mksh, pdksh and bash
> work like KSH_TYPESET was set in zsh.
Hmm, I see, but there's no bash emulation mode =/
I guess it's time to compare the differences between ksh and sh
emulation to see which is closer.
--
Felipe Contreras
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* Re: Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set?
2012-01-30 21:46 ` Felipe Contreras
@ 2012-01-30 22:17 ` Frank Terbeck
2012-01-30 22:20 ` Vincent Lefevre
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Frank Terbeck @ 2012-01-30 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Felipe Contreras; +Cc: zsh-workers
Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:
[...]
>> So, I don't think it should be enabled.
>
> But it wouldn't hurt either, right? It would be nice to have some
> 'bash' emulation mode, but since there isn't any, why not enable this
> harmless option?
I'm unsure (personally, I wouldn't mind), as to whether the
argument-handling semantics of a random builtin can be changed with
POSIX in mind. Maybe someone with deeper understanding of the standard
can shed some light here.
I'd just do
local foo="$(bar --baz)"
and be done with it. That should be portable over pretty much every
bourne-line shell that supports $(...) and `local',
>> FWIW, dash and posh behave like zsh's sh-mode here. Ksh93 doesn't work
>> at all, because it has no `local' (only typeset). Mksh, pdksh and bash
>> work like KSH_TYPESET was set in zsh.
>
> Hmm, I see, but there's no bash emulation mode =/
>
> I guess it's time to compare the differences between ksh and sh
> emulation to see which is closer.
Unsure, due to fairly limited knowledge of bash's extensions to POSIX.
Regards, Frank
--
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nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set?
2012-01-30 21:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 22:17 ` Frank Terbeck
@ 2012-01-30 22:20 ` Vincent Lefevre
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Vincent Lefevre @ 2012-01-30 22:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
On 2012-01-30 23:46:46 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> wrote:
> > Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > [...]
> >> local t=$(echo foo --bar)
> > [...]
> >> But not in zsh, with sh emulation. Enabling KSH_TYPESET makes it work.
> >>
> >> Shouldn't it be enabled with sh emulation?
> >>
> >> BTW. What exactly is 'emulate sh' supposed to emulate? I would like to
> >> run that shell to check for compatibility issues, and apparently it's
> >> not bash.
> >
> > "emulate sh" is POSIX shell emulation (we did amend this mode in the
> > past to work as much as possible as POSIX describes). Neither typeset
> > nor local are part of POSIX (at least not SUSv3 - I don't know about
> > v4).
> >
> > So, I don't think it should be enabled.
>
> But it wouldn't hurt either, right?
Not sure. What if you have some executable named "local" in the path?
> It would be nice to have some 'bash' emulation mode, but since there
> isn't any, why not enable this harmless option?
Instead of changing options for sh emulation, why not add a 'bash'
emulation mode, even though it may not be perfect (it would be better
than sh anyway).
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* Re: Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set?
2012-01-30 20:21 Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set? Felipe Contreras
2012-01-30 20:43 ` Frank Terbeck
@ 2012-01-31 9:43 ` Peter Stephenson
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Stephenson @ 2012-01-31 9:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:21:52 +0200
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> This works on bash
>
> ---
> _test ()
> {
> local t=$(echo foo --bar)
> }
> _test
> ---
>
> But not in zsh, with sh emulation. Enabling KSH_TYPESET makes it work.
>
> Shouldn't it be enabled with sh emulation?
Possibly --- I seem to remember there's a change request in POSIX to do
with this kind of stuff, but I'm not sure if it covered this case.
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