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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 22:59:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6092180651fdc_105ac2088a@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJH712E2kT9yJkGT@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-05-05 at 00:08:17, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > brian m. carlson wrote:
> > > On 2021-05-04 at 15:09:54, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > > > My aim here was to discover if we had any reason to think that "local"
> > > > was less universally implemented than other POSIX/C89-plus features we
> > > > rely on. It seems that it's not.
> > > 
> > > "local" is missing in AT&T ksh.
> > 
> > It's not missing, it's supported only in "functions", which have a
> > different syntax in ksh:
> > 
> >   function f { local x="foo"; echo $x; }; f
> 
> I believe there's a bash compatibility mode that enables this, but I
> don't see support for it in the version Debian ships[0], which doesn't
> enable that mode:
> 
>   ksh -c 'function f { local x="foo"; echo $x; }; f'
>   ksh: f[1]: local: not found [No such file or directory]

I tried to build ksh myself to make sure, and apparently there's a mess
of different versions of it. I manually applied some patches and tried
three times before giving up.

It's clear the Debian version and the Arch Linux version are completely
different.

> Regardless of the specifics, I think we can both agree that it doesn't
> work in sh-style functions, so for Git's purposes, AT&T ksh does not
> meet our needs in terms of support for local.

Indeed. But it also probably doesn't meet many other needs. A quick
check shows 54 failed tests just on t0000-basic.sh. I don't think it's
something we should even consider.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-05  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-03  4:10 [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03  4:21 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-03  5:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03  5:23     ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03  9:01       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04  3:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 12:27           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 12:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 15:09               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 20:22                 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-04 23:17                 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-04 23:55                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05  0:08                   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05  1:58                     ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-05  3:59                       ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-05-05 14:16                         ` Jeff King
2021-05-05 17:18                           ` Felipe Contreras

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