Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> I did not change the Bourne Shell behavior as I believe that the
> export behavior is compatibile with POSIX and as this behavior is more useful
> than what other shells do.
>
> > $ ./sh -o posix -c 'a=1; { a=2; } < /dev/null; echo "$a"'
> > 1
> >
> > Again 2 required by POSIX.
Do you have a pointer to the POSIX text that forbids a subshell in this case
when stdin is redirected?
> What I had to do to come to that point was to support /bin/sh as automatic
> POSIX enabler, add support for "local" and implement the IFS field splitting
> as
> done by ksh88 after I assumed to be ready.
Sorry for the wrong order, the paragrap above was related to Gentoo.
Jörg
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