Re: [Partial patch] IFS and read builtin

[Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>]

On 25/08/10 00:51, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> Yes, I think that's the proper way to implement LINENO.
> 
> FreeBSD sh avoids extending the nodes by detecting expansions of LINENO
> at parse time and storing the line number at that time. However, this is
> only possible because it does not print a line number when there is an
> error in a builtin.

I'm curious to try to see how FreeBSD sh handles eval 'echo $LINENO',
then. This will be a nice excuse to give it another try.

> POSIX.1-2008 (aka SUSv4) says, at one point, that the shell shall "use
> the delimiters as field terminators".
[...]

Ah! So something _was_ wrong -- the standard I was reading. That
explains it all, thank you very much.

When I have a more polished and complete LINENO implementation, I'll
post it here.

Cheers,
Harald