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missing inheritance of exported shell function
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: missing inheritance of exported shell function
- From: Helmut Dipper <helmut dot dipper at sicad dot de>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:45:07 +0100
- Organization: SICAD Utilities
I use following bash-version:
bash -version delivers:
GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i586-pc-cygwin)
Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
on Windows-NT 4.0 SP5.
During my tests I found following behaviour:
Given the definitions
VAR="xxx" ; export VAR
function fct() { pwd; } ; export -f fct
Consider the environments of subsequent started shells:
- interactive shell "bash"
variable VAR and function fct are inherited
- interactive shell "sh" or
shell-script with #!/bin/sh or
shell-script with #!/bin/bash
variable VAR is inherited but not function fct
Question:
Why is there a difference in the inheritance between
variables and functions?
Regards
Helmut Dipper
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