Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:9546 comp.unix.wizards:7955 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cadnetix.COM!beres From: beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: command line options Message-ID: <2439@cadnetix.COM> Date: 22 Apr 88 19:21:06 GMT References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP> <7634@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1864@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres) Organization: Cadnetix Corp., Boulder, CO Lines: 21 In article <1864@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Speaking of the bourne-again shell (System V shell), how do you get a shell >function inherited by subshells? At least on the SysVrel2 system on which I used to work: You can't. I remember a discussion about a year and a half ago in which the *shell* does this or that discussion came up. dmr posted on how the 8th edition shell could inherit functions. Since then, maybe this ability has been given to other variants of sh. -Tim -- Tim Beres Cadnetix 303/444-8075 x293 5775 Flatirons Pkwy {uunet,boulder,nbires}!cadnetix!beres Boulder, CO 80301 beres@cadnetix.com