Re: IFS/read dash bug (was Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?)

[Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille dot lefevre-lists at laposte dot net>]

Le 19/03/2011 23:34, Cyrille Lefevre a écrit :
> Le 18/03/2011 14:46, David Sastre a écrit :
>
> > > [ -e "${p}" ]&& IFS=',' read -r PRINTER dummy< "${p}"
> >
> > Works in bash, posh, mksh and zsh, but fails (at least for me) in
> > dash.
>
> regarding SUSv3, read is not a special builtin, so, should work under
> every shell, if that fails under dash, it should be fixed.

fixed in git depot as of :

2010-05-27 	Herbert Xu	[VAR] Do not poplocalvars prematurely on regular 
utilitie
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/dash/dash.git;a=snapshot;h=1d806ac1fbafb867f6252e184e1be05c0829ab71;sf=tgz

$ echo a b,c | ./dash -c 'IFS=, read a b; echo $a'
a b

however, there are a lot of change on 2010-05-27/28, the last one is :
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/dash/dash.git;a=snapshot;h=0cda2e1f8d8222fa497f808b54a2146d60e304f5;sf=tgz

how about to update dash from git since the last release is almost one 
year old ?

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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