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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:45:07 +0100
From: Helmut Dipper <helmut DOT dipper AT sicad DOT de>
Organization: SICAD Utilities
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Subject: missing inheritance of exported shell function
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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

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