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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:24:49 -0400
From:      Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
To:        naddy@mips.inka.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's sh: "local" builtin
Message-ID:  <020829182449.AA16057.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu>

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> Eugene Ossintsev <osgene@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD's sh has a builtin "local" for the functions. Is it a POSIX.2
> > feature
> 
> No.
> 
> > or Bash influence?
> 
> Korn Shell, more likely.

It's bash.  The Korn shell doesn't have it.  We picked it up from one
of the early POSIX.2 drafts.

Chet

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet )

Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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