Subject: Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

From: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:16:53 +0100

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-)
>
> -- >8 --
>
> "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment
> variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of
> the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function
> (most notably, "test_must_fail");

No? bash:

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ zippo()
> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }
dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ XXX=8 zippo
8
8

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ /bin/dash
$ zippo()
> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }
$ XXX=8 zippo
8
8
$ 

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ /bin/ash
$ zippo()
> {
> echo $XXX
> echo $XXX
> }
$ XXX=8 zippo
8
8
$ 

Seems to work just fine with a set of typical shells.

-- 
David Kastrup