Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 06/11/2010 01:49 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Here's a patch that does that at the expense of using >> shell functions*before* guaranteeing we have a decent shell. >> I think that is ok, these days. > > Yes, it is. There may be bugs in the implementation of shell > functions, but IMO assuming the shell functions are parsed okay is > pretty basic. And Exit is trivial enough to assume it also works.
Hi Paolo, Thanks for confirmation. My "I think" was based on autoconf's shellology/functions section, so we should be safe. I also confirmed that Solaris 10's /bin/sh handles it. Jim P.S., your mail client is still munging quoted text.
