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~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon May 29 19:05:34 2006
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