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From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: rc.subr: disabling globbing while processing devfs rules
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:06:50PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Why not use 'local -' instead of the $- magic?  That is:

> devfs_rulesets_from_file()
> {
>    local file _err _me -
> 
>    ...
>    set -f
>    ...
> }

> That would seem to be simpler.

I had mentioned this possibility on IRC, but this feature is specific to
Almquist-derived shells (ash) and so something more portable was
selected. (It's still not standard because POSIX does not specify
"local" but it works on most shells in use.)

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker