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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2006-01-12 21:02:26 +1100
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2006-01-12 21:02:26 +1100
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[EVAL] Make eval with empty arguments return 0
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:56:23AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> tags 347232 + patch
> quit
> 
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:29:19PM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> > The problem is here:
> > 
> > # Set the kernel 2.6 option only for fresh install
> > test -z "$(GetMenuOpt "kopt" "")" && kopt_2_6="root=$root_device_2_6 ro"
> > 
> > # Extract options for specific kernels
> > eval $(ExtractMenuOpts "\(kopt_[a-zA-Z0-9_]\+\)")
> > 
> > If the first test fails and the eval argument is empty then dash
> > terminate with exitcode 1.
> 
> > This is a simple testcase:
> > tm:~# bash -c "set -e ;/bin/false && : ; eval ''; echo 'END'"; echo $?
> > END
> > 0
> > tm:~# dash -c "set -e ;/bin/false && : ; eval ''; echo 'END'"; echo $?
> > 1
> > 
> > if you insert any command with successfull exit status before the
> > empty eval, all work ok:
> > tm:~# bash -c "set -e ;/bin/false && : ; : ; eval ''; echo 'END'"; echo $?
> > END
> > 0
> > tm:~# dash -c "set -e ;/bin/false && : ; : ; eval ''; echo 'END'"; echo $?
> > END
> > 0
> 
> Yes, I can confirm this is a bug in dash.  The standard says
> 
>  EXIT STATUS
> 
>      If there are no arguments, or only null arguments, eval shall
>      return a zero exit status; otherwise, it shall return the exit
>      status of the command defined by the string of concatenated
>      arguments separated by <space>s.
> 
> Hi Herbert, please see http://bugs.debian.org/347232

Changed evalstring to return the exit status instead of evalskip.  This
allows us to return zero if the string is empty.
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