On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:10:24PM +0100, Jiri Horner wrote:
>> Problem is caused by name collision in local variables, which are
>> apparently not very local in this case (maybe also dash problem?)
>
> Just an additional comment on this: It looks actually as intended that
> the initial value is inherited, the manpage state:
>
> Variables may be declared to be local to a function by using a
> local command. This should appear as the first statement of a
> function, and the syntax is
>
> local [variable | -] ...
>
> Local is implemented as a builtin command.
>
> When a variable is made local, it inherits the initial value and
> exported and readonly flags from the variable with the same name
> in the surrounding scope, if there is one. Otherwise, the
> variable is initially unset. The shell uses dynamic scoping, so
> that if you make the variable x local to function f, which then
> calls func‐ tion g, references to the variable x made inside g
> will refer to the variable x declared inside f, not to the global
> variable named x.
I think this may be a design flaw in dash; seems bash doesn't suffer
the same issue:
$ cat testme
testme() {
x=backfromthedead
local x
echo $x
}
testme
$ bash testme
$ dash testme
backfromthedead
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