Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/kyua-atf-compat/dist

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 08:43:51PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:54:13PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:49:51PM +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
> >  > Log Message:
> >  > Cherry-pick upstream change d0daf9983f5a0e635f1127dbc827aa114daa90d8:
> >  > 
> >  > Fix broken variable parsing with NetBSD's /bin/sh
> >  > 
> >  > Quote the expansion of a $() command that was not properly surrounded
> >  > by quotes so that this runs properly with NetBSD's /bin/sh.
> > 
> > In what way was it broken? (And where's the PR?)
> 
> I suspect that field splitting is applied to the RHS of assignments
> when they are on local or export lines.
> 
> eg:
>   (x="a b"; b=fubar; export y=$x; echo $y; (echo $b))
> outputs a and fubar (on two lines).

Sorry - that doesn't do what I intended, try:
    (x="a b"; b=fubar; export y=$x; echo $y; sh -c 'echo $b')

        David

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