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Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Function positional parameter space
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In article <1990Oct7.223601.28031@rice.edu> chris@manic.communica.oz (Chris Clarkson) writes:
>Under SunOS 3.X (and most Sys V and BSD Unix I have worked on) Bourne
>shell functions shared their positional paramater space with the main
>shell. Under SunOS 4.X this no longer seems to be the case.  Is this true
>or is some other mechanism at play ?

This is the result of the change from an s5r2-based /bin/sh in SunOS 3.x
to an s5r3-based /bin/sh in SunOS 4.x.  The s5r3 sh no longer has a single
global space for the positional parameters.

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