Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sh

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

[this probably belong to tech-userlevel]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 03:46:44 +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> That reminds me...  We currently abuse ENVIRONMENT section to document
> variables like PS1 or HISTSIZE which are quite obviously not
> environment variables.  I think most of them should be moved out of
> .Sh ENVIRONMENT into a separate .Ss section inside .Sh DESCRIPTION
> (and the LINENO section should moved into DESCRIPTION as well).

ksh(1) has "Parameters" sections where it talks about parameter
substitution, special parameters and other variables set/used by the
shell.

bash(1) has a separate section "Shell Variables".

-uwe