Re: bashism question

[James Vega <jamessan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:28:36PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:39:07PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > It's safe for use with dash, but using it is technically a violation of  
> > Policy (albeit a widespread one). There is a Policy bug open requesting 
> > that the XSI extensions for trap and kill be permitted (#477240).
> 
> >From this I'd say for Lenny using trap with a signal number is fine. 
> 
> Also they same question comes up with the "local" keyword. Dash seems to
> support this, while it is not POSIX.

The "local" keyword is an explicitly supported extension.  These are
discussed in Section 10.4 of policy.

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James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@xxxxxxxxxx>

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