Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-12 Severity: normal Hopefully the following will illustrate some unexpected behaviour I discovered:
mich...@cnspc18:~$ dash -c 'noop(){ true;}; x=1; noop; x=broken true; echo "x is now $x"' x is now 1 mich...@cnspc18:~$ dash -c 'noop(){ true;}; x=1; noop; x=broken noop; echo "x is now $x"' x is now broken My understanding is that 'x=broken noop' shouldn't make the change to x permanent. It shouldn't make a different whether the command is a normal executable versus a shell function, right? o_O -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (490, 'testing'), (470, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -MD -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Deegan Hugaholic http://www.deegan.id.au/ --------------------- Guvax bs vg nf ribyhgvba va npgvba. --------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org