On 2024-07-23 at 19:18:18, Avi Halachmi via GitGitGadget wrote:
> Before this patchset only bash and zsh were supported.
>
> After this patchset, the following shells work: bash, zsh, dash (since at
> least 0.5.8), free/net bsd sh, busybox-ash, mksh, openbsd sh, pdksh(!),
> Schily extended Bourne sh (bosh), yash.
>
> The code should now be almost posix-compliant, with one big exception
> ("local" variables in functions) which is not simple to fix.
We explicitly allow `local` in our coding guidelines. As a side note,
Debian requires it of all shells that can be used as `/bin/sh`.
> Shells which don't work, likely only due to missing "local": ksh93[u+m],
> Schily minimal posix Bourne sh (pbosh), yash-posix-mode.
ksh93u+m is planning on adding local in a future revision.
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brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him)
Toronto, Ontario, CA
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