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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2013 08:00:56 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Zeman?= <vhaisman@gmail.com>
Cc:        rank1seeker@gmail.com, Reid Linnemann <linnemannr@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /bin/sh => STDIN & functions, var scope messing
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Václav Zeman <vhaisman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Curious. Which of the two behaviours is POSIXly correct?
>

I believe that /bin/sh's behaviour is correct.  I don't know what shell the
manpage is referring to, but it's not bash (bash does the same thing in a
pipeline).  Perhaps it's referring to csh?  If that is the case that line
is probably causing more confusion rather than alleviating it.


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