Re: Bug with sh emulation; shouldn't KSH_TYPESET be set?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2012-01-30 23:46:46 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > [...]
> >>       local t=$(echo foo --bar)
> > [...]
> >> But not in zsh, with sh emulation. Enabling KSH_TYPESET makes it work.
> >>
> >> Shouldn't it be enabled with sh emulation?
> >>
> >> BTW. What exactly is 'emulate sh' supposed to emulate? I would like to
> >> run that shell to check for compatibility issues, and apparently it's
> >> not bash.
> >
> > "emulate sh" is POSIX shell emulation (we did amend this mode in the
> > past to work as much as possible as POSIX describes). Neither typeset
> > nor local are part of POSIX (at least not SUSv3 - I don't know about
> > v4).
> >
> > So, I don't think it should be enabled.
> 
> But it wouldn't hurt either, right?

Not sure. What if you have some executable named "local" in the path?

> It would be nice to have some 'bash' emulation mode, but since there
> isn't any, why not enable this harmless option?

Instead of changing options for sh emulation, why not add a 'bash'
emulation mode, even though it may not be perfect (it would be better
than sh anyway).

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