On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:41 +0100, Clifford Wolf wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:29:53PM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > > No. But as I noticed while going after that weeks ago I discovered that
> > > even shell functions are passed to sub-shells like env-variables:
> >
> > JFTR: It is basically a feature of the bash to be able to pass shell
> > functions similar to environment variables to sub-shells.
> > The automatic exporting of variables and functions can be enabled with
> > "set -a" or "set -o allexport", respectively.
> > God knows what the reason was for adding "set -a" to my .bashrc years
> > ago ...
>
> good - so this is solved for you now. do you think we should add something

Basically yes.

> to ROCK Linux for such cases (and do you have any ideas what this could
> be)?

Hmm, I just wrote it for the next one with similar problems and
symptoms.
Something to do against such problems? Have to think about it (and play
with bash) if I have more time ...

        Bernd
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