Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Envelope-Sender-Is: helmut.dipper@sicad.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Message-ID: <3A0966F3.34F75B3D@sicad.de> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:45:07 +0100 From: Helmut Dipper Organization: SICAD Utilities X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: missing inheritance of exported shell function Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Helmut Dipper | SICAD Utilities GmbH phone: +49 89 636 41558 | Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 ___fax: +49 89 636 49613 | D-81730 Muenchen -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com