From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t5500-fetch-pack: remove local (bashism) usage. Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 17:31:37 +1000 Message-ID: <20060529073137.GB22452@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <11486091783808-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net> <11486091793385-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net> <20060526122317.GC5372@gondor.apana.org.au> <20060529052828.GB24077@localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 29 09:31:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkcEA-0005dq-L2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 29 May 2006 09:31:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750737AbWE2Hbs (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 03:31:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750749AbWE2Hbs (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 03:31:48 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:23560 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbWE2Hbr (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 03:31:47 -0400 Received: from gondolin.me.apana.org.au ([192.168.0.6]) by arnor.apana.org.au with esmtp (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1FkcE2-0006lS-Hh; Mon, 29 May 2006 17:31:42 +1000 Received: from herbert by gondolin.me.apana.org.au with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FkcDx-0005s0-00; Mon, 29 May 2006 17:31:37 +1000 To: Eric Wong Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060529052828.GB24077@localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:28:28PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote: > > Cool. Hmm... pdksh seems to support it here (Debian sid). I'm pretty > sure local is not part of the POSIX spec, though; and I have seen > /bin/sh that don't support it. It is true that the current POSIX spec does not specify it. However, all useful POSIX-compliant shells on Linux (i.e., excluding those shells that exist only to test POSIX compliance) support it and it is used by a large corpus of existing Linux scripts. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt