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Re: Misused term "subshell" in §3.3 of the Bash Manual

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 07:45:25PM +0800, ziyunfei wrote:
> "Functions may be exported so that *subshells* automatically have them defined with the -f option to the export builtin"
> 
> Technically, a child shell process forked/execed by the current shell is not a real subshell,  am I right?	

I agree with you, but it's not clear what the best wording should be.
Exported functions only work when the (grand)child process receiving
them is another instance of bash.

Maybe:

  Functions may be exported, using the -f option to the export builtin,
  so that they are automatically defined in all child bash shells.

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Re: Misused term "subshell" in §3.3 of the Bash Manual Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2015-09-21 08:49 -0400

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