Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

[Sheldon Hearn]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:13:42 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Command substitution certainly has to spawn a subshell, even
> for built-in commands, because otherwise you could modify
> parent shell variables within command substitutions.

But isn't that exactly what's happening here, where PWD is being tainted
by the commands evaluated within the substitution?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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