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From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] dash uses $* instead of $@ in variable assignments
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 23:10:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n3nq7u$t46$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151126213753.GA8662@chaz.gmail.com>

On 26/11/2015 22:37, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-11-26 20:44:26 +0100, Gioele Barabucci:
>> 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
> [...]
> 
> This behaviour is what I expect and is common to other shells as
> well.

Hi,

so from the answers I got this looks like an intended behaviour. Fair
enough. :) For the sake of triage I will then mark the Debian bug as
wontfix.

Regards,

--
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>


      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-02 22:10 UTC|newest]

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

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