Re: Parameter expansion, patterns and fnmatch

[Olof Johansson <olof@ethup.se>]

On 2016-08-09 23:39 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> Yes, this looks like a bug in dash. With the default
> --disable-fnmatch code, when dash encounters [ in a pattern, it
> immediately treats the following characters as part of the set. If
> it then encounters the end of the pattern without having seen a
> matching ], it attempts to reset the state and continue as if [ was
> treated as a literal character right from the start. The attempt to
> reset the state doesn't look right, and has been like this since at
> least the initial Git commit in 2005.
> 
> This also affects
> 
>     case [a in [?) echo ok ;; *) echo bad ;; esac
> 
> which should print ok.
> 
> Attached is a patch that attempts to reset the state correctly. It
> passes your test and mine, but I have not yet tested it extensively.

Thanks a lot! For what it's worth, I've been using dash with this
patch this for about a week now, including building a lot of open
source software (via OpenEmbedded). I haven't seen any issues yet.

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Olof Johansson                            https://github.com/olof