Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 21:56:01 +0200 From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rc.subr: disabling globbing while processing devfs rules Message-ID: <20130401195601.GA47384@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <201304011406.50417.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <514D6AC5.8010409@FreeBSD.org> <201304011406.50417.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:06:50PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Why not use 'local -' instead of the $- magic? That is:
> devfs_rulesets_from_file()
> {
> local file _err _me -
>
> ...
> set -f
> ...
> }
> That would seem to be simpler.
I had mentioned this possibility on IRC, but this feature is specific to
Almquist-derived shells (ash) and so something more portable was
selected. (It's still not standard because POSIX does not specify
"local" but it works on most shells in use.)
--
Jilles Tjoelker
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