John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Absolutely, my original point should have been prefixed with: I wonder > if the reason we haven't had any problems reported is because ... > > And we've got lucky because the clobbering of global variables happens > not to matter in these particular cases. Ah, I did misunderstand why you were making that statement, and now I fully agree with your conclusion (which is what Jeff spelled out in the latest message) that the fact that we saw no breakage report is not a datapoint that everybody's shell supports "local" at all. Thanks for clarification. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html