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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Another ms_sh question (nested functions)
Message-ID: <6477@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Jan 91 11:37:38 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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I have another ms_sh question about nested functions.

If I define,

inner () {
FOO=13
return $FOO
}
outer () {
inner
return $?
}

then

outer
echo $?

gives the expected result (13)... the first time. Subsequent calls to
outer result in unpredictable crashes and the environment is seriously
corrupted.

I think it should work, since it works in unix sh.

Is this a known bug? I am using ms_sh version 1.6.2. Where can I get
the latest version?
I will also try increasing the size of my environment. Any other
ideas?

				Mark.
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Mark Dobie                              M.Dobie@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
University of Southampton		M.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet)