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From: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	Jan Verbeek <ring@openmailbox.org>,
	dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Illegal function names are accepted after being used as aliases
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:21:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CCB121.60808@gigawatt.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CCABD6.40001@redhat.com>

On 23/02/2016 19:58, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/23/2016 11:44 AM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>
>> This matches bash's behaviour, aside from bash requiring -- to prevent
>> detection of invalid flags to the alias command:
>>
>> bash-4.3$ alias -- -=true
>
> Then dash DOES have a bug:

Indeed, I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise, my apologies if it came 
across that way. It's not limited to the alias command though, I spotted 
at least the exit and getopts commands having the same problem, and it 
should probably be fixed for all of them at once.

Cheers,
Harald van Dijk

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-23 18:18 [BUG] Illegal function names are accepted after being used as aliases Jan Verbeek
2016-02-23 18:40 ` Eric Blake
2016-02-23 18:44 ` Harald van Dijk
2016-02-23 18:58   ` Eric Blake
2016-02-23 19:21     ` Harald van Dijk [this message]
2016-02-23 19:33       ` Eric Blake
2016-02-23 21:00         ` Harald van Dijk
2016-02-23 21:49           ` Eric Blake

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