Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Linda Walsh Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Dynamic variable failure & equiv-const strings compare unequal Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:57:44 -0700 Lines: 13 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5628B3E2.70405@tlinx.org> <20151022105816.GA11057@thinkpad> <5628D2F9.9090101@tlinx.org> <20151022124009.GA9184@thinkpad> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1445518682 24463 208.118.235.17 (22 Oct 2015 12:58:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash To: Oleg Popov Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Thunderbird In-Reply-To: <20151022124009.GA9184@thinkpad> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 173.164.175.65 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11743 Oleg Popov wrote: > $(...) is a subshell. Variables cannot be passed back from a subshell, > no matter how and where they are declared. --- Um... oh.. in testor, still calling that way. I missed that. This is even more annoying for passing back results than I thought. Grrr.