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From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] dash uses $* instead of $@ in variable assignments
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:44:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n37neq$eem$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

Hello,

I am forwarding a bug [1] reported by a Debian user: dash incorrectly
uses `$*` instead of the requested `$@` inside variable assignments.
The current version of dash is affected by this bug.

A simple test from the original reporter:

    $ dash -c 'IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@" ; x="$@" ; echo "$x"'
    a b c
    a:b:c

    $ bash --posix -c 'IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@" ; x="$@" ;
echo "$x"'
    a b c
    a b c

This error is reproducible with dash 0.5.7 and with the current master
git master branch, commit 2e5842258bd5b252ffdaa630db09c9a19a9717ca.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/764365

--
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>


             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-26 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-26 19:44 Gioele Barabucci [this message]
2015-11-26 21:07 ` [BUG] dash uses $* instead of $@ in variable assignments Harald van Dijk
2015-11-26 21:37 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-12-02 22:10   ` Gioele Barabucci

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