Using ksh set -u breaks xinit script...
Ed Ravin
eravin at panix.uucp
Tue Mar 26 15:19:30 AEST 1991
I dragged my ksh environment over from my Sun workstation, and one
of the things I routinely turn on is 'set -u", so that shell variables
will cause an error if referenced before being declared (assigned). I
consider this good programming practice and protection against spelling
errors, but it caused the "/usr/lpp/bin/xinit" script to break because it
checks for the variable XSTATION without declaring it first or using suitable
defaulting (e.g. ${foo:-} or whatnot).
Should I make this burning issue my first call to Defect Support? Will they
even understand what I'm talking about? I suppose I could ask my SE but he
keeps saying things like "Boy, this AIX stuff is totally different from
everything else I know..."
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