On 5/24/16 12:09 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
>> It's not that Posix `allows' a subshell, it requires a subshell
>> environment:
>
> Hm sorry I thought it was "may". This is kind of easy to confuse with
> all the other unspecified things about side-effects from assignments
> affecting subsequent assignments and commands when there's no command
> name.
Yeah. A subshell environment doesn't automatically mean a subshell, but
it means that changes in the subshell environment don't affect the parent.
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