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2010-11-28[SIGNAL] Mark status as volatile in exitshellMaciej Żenczykowski
trap.c: In function 'exitshell': trap.c:354: warning: variable 'status' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-11-28[BUILTIN] Stop documenting EXSHELLPROCJonathan Nieder
At some point between ash 0.3.5-11.0.1 and ash 0.3.8-37, Debian ash stopped using the EXSHELLPROC exception to handle shell scripts without a magic number. Remove all remaining references to it to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-11-28[BUILTIN] Use EXEXIT in place of EXEXECJonathan Nieder
The intended semantics of EXEXEC are identical to EXEXIT, so simplify by using EXEXIT directly. Functional change: in edge cases (exec within a trap handler), this causes the exit status from exec not to be clobbered. For example, without this patch: $ sh -c 'trap "exec nonexistent" EXIT'; echo $? exec: 1: nonexistent: not found 0 And with it: $ sh -c 'trap "exec nonexistent" EXIT'; echo $? exec: 1: nonexistent: not found 127 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-11-28[INPUT] Use exit status 127 when the script to run does not existGerrit Pape
This commit makes dash exit with return code 127 instead of 2 if started as non-interactive shell with a non-existent command_file specified as argument (or a directory), as documented in http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html#tag_04_128_14 The wrong exit code was reported by Clint Adams and Jari Aalto through http://bugs.debian.org/548743 http://bugs.debian.org/548687 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-11-28[ERROR] Allow the originator of EXERROR to set the exit statusHerbert Xu
Some errors have exit status values specified by POSIX and it is therefore desirable to be able to set the exit status at the EXERROR source rather than in main.c. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-11-28[MAN] Document optional open parenthesis for case patternsPhilipp Weis
While inspecting some dash scripts on my system, I was surprised to see that some of them use an open parenthesis at the beginning of case patterns while that's not mentioned in the manpage. Dash currently is fine with and without that parenthesis (parser.c:413). The attached patch documents this feature. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-11-28[EVAL] Fixed trap/return regression due to SKIPEVAL removalHerbert Xu
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 08:06:16AM +0000, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > > with the latest git version of dash trap actions are not > evaluated in the context of a function. > > The following script demonstrates the bug: > ----8<---- > read_timeout () { > saved_traps="$(trap)" > trap 'printf "timed out\n"; eval "${saved_traps}"; return' TERM > ( sleep $1; kill -TERM $$ ) >/dev/null 2>&1 & > timer_pid=$! > read $2 > kill $timer_pid 2>/dev/null > } > > read_timeout 5 value > printf "read \"%s\"\n" "${value:=default}" > > ---->8---- > The return statement in the trap inside the read_timeout function > does not return from the function but rather exits the script. > > With dash 0.5.5.1 it works as expected. This bug was caused by the SKIPEVAL removal. When the SKIPEVAL hack was added to improve set -e support in traps, dotrap was changed to return whether set -e was detected. After the removal of SKIPEVAL, set -e is now handled through exraise. However, dotrap still returned a value which is now incorrectly used to trigger an exraise. This patch removes the vestigial link between dotrap and exraise. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-10-18[EXPAND] Fix ifsfirst/ifslastp leak in casematchHerbert Xu
The commit f42e443bb511ed3224f09b4fcf0772438ebdbbfa [EXPAND] Fix ifsfirst/ifslastp leak revealed yet another ifsfirst/ifslastp leak in casematch. Previously it was hidden because ifsfirst/ifslastp was cleared unconditionally on entry (which caused the leakage of those entries). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-10-07[BUILTIN] Fix EXEXEC status clobberingHerbert Xu
evalcommand always clobbers the exit status in case of an EXEXEC which means that exec always fails with exit status 2 regardless of what it actually returns. This patch adds the missing check for EXEXEC so that the correct exit status is preserved. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-09-08[BUILTIN] Fix trailing field bug in read(1)Herbert Xu
The new read(1) code fails to handle the last variable correctly if it happens to be terminated by IFS characters. Those characters are included in the last variable but they should not be. This patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-09-08[EXPAND] Fix ifsfirst/ifslastp leakHerbert Xu
As it stands expandarg may return with a non-NULL ifslastp which then confuses any subsequent ifsbreakup user that doesn't clear it directly. What's worse, if we get interrupted before we hit ifsfree in expandarg we will leak memory. This patch fixes this by always calling ifsfree in expandarg thus ensuring that ifslastp is always NULL on the normal path. It also adds an ifsfree call to the RESET path to ensure that memory isn't leaked. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-09-08[JOBS] Debug compile fixmaximilian attems
No point in tracing a no longer undeclared "ps->cmd", fixes: jobs.c: In function \u2018commandtext\u2019: jobs.c:1192: error: \u2018ps\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function) jobs.c:1192: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once jobs.c:1192: error: for each function it appears in.) Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-09-08[VAR] Fix varinit ordering that broke fcJilles Tjoelker
Git commit 0df96793ef6aa103df228d7dfe56099b7d721a15 "[SHELL] Add preliminary LINENO support" added the LINENO variable in the middle of other initialized variables, causing some macros for TERM and HISTSIZE to break (both of these are only used if libedit support is compiled in, which is not the case by default). The breakage is the same as can be seen by setting HISTSIZE=0. Also add a comment warning about this. Reported-by: Wez Furlong <kingwez@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-06[EVAL] Check exit for eval NSUBSHELLGerrit Pape
Example: $ dash -c 'set -e; (false); echo here' here With this commit, dash exits 1 before echo. The bug was reported by Stefan Fritsch through http://bugs.debian.org/514863 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-06[EVAL] Removed dead code for eval NPIPEHerbert Xu
The notyet code is identical to the current code. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-06[VAR] Fix loss of variables when hash collidesHerbert Xu
Brian Koropoff reported that the new var patches broke the following script: #!/bin/dash GDM_LANG="bar" OPTION="foo" unset GDM_LANG # OPTION has mysteriously become unset echo "$OPTION" He correctly diagnosed this as a result of removing all variables in the hash chain preceding the one that should be removed in setvareq. He also provided a patch to fix this. This patch is based on his but without keeping the original vpp. As a result, we now store new variables at the end of the hash chain instead of the beginning. To make this work, setvareq/setvar now returns the vp pointer modified. In case they're used to unset a variable the pointer returned is undefined. This is because mklocal needs it and used to get it by assuming that the new variable always appear at the beginning of the chain. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-06-28[EVAL] Don't clear eflag in evalbackcmdGerrit Pape
According to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_12 "A subshell environment shall be created as a duplicate of the shell environment, except that signal traps set by that shell environment shall be set to the default values." Currently the eflag is cleared when forking a subshell, e.g. $ dash -c 'set -e ; z=$(false;echo foo) ; echo $z' foo With this commit the eflag is preserved for subshells, and dash exits 1 before echo. The problem was reported by Vincent Lefevre through http://bugs.debian.org/514863 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-29[BUILTIN] Continue after EINTR in read(1) with no pending signalsHerbert Xu
The recent introduction of SIGCHLD trapping broke read(1) as each SIGCHLD may cause read(1) to return prematurely. Now if we did have a trap for SIGCHLD read(1) should actually do this. However, returning when SIGCHLD isn't trapped is wrong. This patch fixes this by checking for EINTR and pendingsigs in read(1). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[JOBS] Fix wait regression where it does not wait for all jobsHerbert Xu
The sigsuspend patch broke wait by making it return after just one job has completed. This is because we rely on pendingsigs to signal work and never clear it until waitcmd finishes. This patch adds a separate gotsigchld for this purpose so we can clear it before we start waiting. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[EXPAND] Fix corruption of redirections with byte 0x81Jilles Tjoelker
In other ash variants, a partial implementation of ksh-like cmd >file* adds and removes CTLESC bytes ('\x81') in redirection filenames, preserving 8-bit transparency. Long ago, dash removed the code to add the CTLESC bytes, but not the code to remove them, causing corruption of filenames containing CTLESC. This commit removes the code to remove the CTLESC bytes. The CTLESC byte occurs frequently in UTF-8 encoded non-Latin text. This bug has been reported various times to Ubuntu and Debian (e.g. Launchpad Ubuntu #422298). This patch is the same as the one submitted by Alexander Korolkov in Ubuntu #422298. Signed-off-by: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[EVAL] Force fork if any trap is set, not just on EXITJilles Tjoelker
In some cases the shell executes a subshell or an external command in the current process. This is not done if a trap on EXIT has been set, so that that trap can execute after the subshell or external command has finished. Extend that check to all traps. (A trap is "set" if a non-empty command string has been attached to it.) Improve encapsulation by exporting an accessor function for this and making the trap array static again. This is much like FreeBSD SVN r194127, enhanced to apply to subshells also (see FreeBSD SVN r194774). Example: dash -c '{ trap "echo moo" TERM; sleep 3; }& sleep 1; kill $!;wait' This should print "moo" after 3 seconds. Example: dash -c '{ trap "echo moo" TERM; (sleep 3) }& sleep 1; kill $!;wait' The same. Example: dash -c '{ trap "echo moo" TERM; sleep 3; :; }& sleep 1; kill $!;wait' This works correctly even without this patch. Signed-off-by: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[REDIR] Fix popredir on abnormal exit from built-inHerbert Xu
Just like the poplocalvar problem recently fixed, redirections can also be leaked in case of an abnormal exit. This patch fixes it using the same method as poplocalvar, by storing the previous redirection state and restoring to that point. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[REDIR] Move null redirect checks into callerHerbert Xu
The null redirect checks were added as an optimisation to avoid unnecessary memory allocations. However, we could avoid this completely by simply making the caller avoid making a redirection unless it is not null. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[VAR] Do not poplocalvars prematurely on regular utilitiesHerbert Xu
The recent cmdenviron removal broke regular utilities by calling poplocalvars too early. This patch fixes that by postponing the poplocalvars for regular utilities until they have completed. In order to ensure that local still works, it is now a special built-in. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[VAR] Document local command behaviour changeHerbert Xu
The localvar nesting changeset causes local to fail when used outside functions. While this behaviour is consistent with other shells, it is a change in dash's beavhiour. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-27[VAR] Fix poplocalvar on abnormal exit from functionHerbert Xu
The new localvar code broke the abnormal exit from functions and built-ins by not restoring the original localvar state. This patch fixes this by storing the previous localvar state so that we always unwind correctly in case of an abnormal exit. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26[VAR] Replace cmdenviron with localvarsHerbert Xu
This patch replaces the cmdenviron mechanism for temporary command variables with the localvars mechanism used by functions. This reduces code size, and more importantly, makes the variable assignment take effect immediately as required by POSIX. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26[VAR] Move unsetvar functionality into setvareqHerbert Xu
This patch moves the unsetvar code into setvareq so that we can no have a pathological case of an unset variable hanging around unless it has a bit pinning it like VEXPORT. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26[VAR] Fix poplocalvar leakHerbert Xu
When a variable is marked as local, we set VSTRFIXED on its vp recored. However, poplocalvar never clears this flag for variables that were unset to begin with. Thus if you ever made an unset variable local, it would get the VSTRFIXED bit and stick around forever. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26[VAR] Add localvars nestingHerbert Xu
This patch adds localvars nesting infrastructure so we can reuse the localvars mechanism for command evaluation. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-03[EVAL] Fix command -- crashGerrit Pape
parse_command_args() returning a **argv pointer with *argv == 0 makes dash segfault in find_command(). To reproduce run dash -c 'command --' With this commit, parse_command_args() returns 0 if *argv is null after parsing --, and so fixes the subsequent segfault. Reported by Jonny through http://bugs.debian.org/579543 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-04-15[JOBS] Fix for job control off warningH. Peter Anvin
There seems to be a problem with the new version of dash with job control off. I can't tell if it is just a warning or is a manifest bug. usr/dash/trap.c: In function `exitshell': usr/dash/trap.c:376: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an `if' statement Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-04-02[BUILTIN] Use faccessat if availableHerbert Xu
Eric Blake suggested that we should use faccessat so that ACLs and other corner cases are handled correctly. This patch does exactly that. Note that faccessat doesn't handle ACLs when euid != uid, as this case is currently implemented by glibc instead of the kernel, using code similar to the existing dash test. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-04-02Release 0.5.6.Herbert Xu
2010-04-02[BUILTIN] Make trap signal name/number errors non-fatal.Herbert Xu
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:23:34AM +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote: > > there seems to be a problem with the trap implementation in dash > (tested with 0.5.4 and 0.5.5.1). If I specify a signal which is not > supported, the shell unconditionally aborts. E.g., I had expected > the following to print foo (like bash and zsh do): > > # dash -c 'trap "echo trap executed" UNKNOWNSIGNAL || echo "foo"' > trap: 1: UNKNOWNSIGNAL: bad trap > > This means I cannot write a construct like the following to take > advantage of the ERR signal which is present in some shells: > > trap "echo ERR trap executed" ERR 2>/dev/null || : > > I also checked the POSIX documentation, and quoting from > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.html > (exit status): "For both interactive and non-interactive shells, > invalid signal names [XSI] [Option Start] or numbers [Option End] > shall not be considered a syntax error and do not cause the shell > to abort." This patch replaces sh_error with a outfmt + return 1 in trapcmd so that these errors are no longer fatal. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-04-02[BUILTIN] Use TMPDIR in mkbuiltinsmaximilian attems
while merging upstream dash in klibc, noticed that klibc dash had grown that useful feature. Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-03-10[ARITH] Fix logical or result valueJilles Tjoelker
Another change I'm making to the arith code is making || return 0 or 1 only, matching C, POSIX and other shells. Apart from the compliance issue, it is also bad to expose implementation details like the exact meaning of 'noeval' to scripts such that they may come to depend on them. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-03-09[REDIR] Do not truncate file for FROMTO redirectionHerbert Xu
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:06:30AM +0000, Nikola Vladov wrote: > May be this is a bug: > > echo XX > uu > cat <> uu > > dash truncates file uu. The open flag O_TRUNC must be removed. > I'm not 100% shure what POSIX say about: program <> file Indeed, this is a bug we inherited from NetBSD. This patch removes the O_TRUNC flag for FROMTO. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-03-09[ARITH] Fix binary operator parsingHerbert Xu
Jilles Tjoelker reported that binary operator parsing doesn't respect operator precedence correctly in the case where a lower- precedence operator is followed by a higher-precedence operator, and then by a lower-precedence operator. This patch fixes this by stopping when we encounter a binary oeprator with a precedence lower than one that we have already encountered. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-03-09[BUILD] Fix changelog entryHerbert Xu
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-11-26[BUILTIN] Fix off-by-one recordregion in readcmdHerbert Xu
Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> wrote: > > I found another example: > > $ tr -d '[:print:]' < /etc/passwd |tr -d '\t\n' |wc -c > 0 > > $ dash -c 'while read o p; do printf "[%s] [%s]\n" "$o" "$p"; done < > /etc/passwd' |tr -d '[:print:]' |tr -d '[:space:]' |wc -c > 61 > > bug is not fixed yet :( This bug is caused by an off-by-one error in the recordregion call in readcmd. It included the terminating NUL in the region which causes ifsbreakup to include the string after it for scanning. Setting the correct length fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-11-04[PARSER] Fix syntax array sizeJim Meyering
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:00:05AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > A DEL (0177, dec 127) byte in a here-document would cause dash to > access uninitialized memory at the end of one of the syntax.c tables, > since those tables are sized to accommodate a maximum index of > BASESYNTAX + 126. Make the generated tables one byte larger. > printf ':<<\\E\n\200y\nE'|./dash > * src/mksyntax.c (filltable): Use 258, not 257 as the size, > so that BASESYNTAX(=130) + 127 is a valid index. > (print): Likewise. > Don't emit explicit array dimension in declaration. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-31[CD] Lookup PWD after going through CDPATHHerbert Xu
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:39:03PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: > For the cd command, POSIX 2008 requires that after all pathnames in CDPATH > have been tested and failed in step 5, then step 6 interprets the directory > argument relative to PWD. In other words, this demonstrates a bug: > > $ dash -c 'cd /tmp; mkdir -p foo; CDPATH=oops; cd foo; echo $?; pwd' > cd: 1: can't cd to foo > 2 > /tmp > > while bash gets it correct: > > $ bash -c 'cd /tmp; mkdir -p foo; CDPATH=oops; cd foo; echo $?; pwd' > 0 > /tmp/foo This patch fixes the problem. Reported-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-31[BUILTIN] Avoid compiler warnings on isdigitEric Blake
Pass correct type to ctype macro. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-31[BUILTIN] Add another missing LC_COLLATE to mkbuiltinsMatthew Burgess
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:07:16PM +0000, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > My system has Coreutils-7.4 compiled with the i18n patch from > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/coreutils/coreutils-i18n.patch. > > Using this to compile dash, when in an en_GB.UTF-8 locale, I get the following error: > > if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -include ../config.h -DBSD=1 -DSHELL -DIFS_BROKEN -Wall -g -O2 -MT eval.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/eval.Tpo" -c -o eval.o eval.c; \ > then mv -f ".deps/eval.Tpo" ".deps/eval.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/eval.Tpo"; exit 1; fi > eval.c: In function ‘evalcommand’: > eval.c:810: error: ‘EXECCMD’ undeclared (first use in this function) > eval.c:810: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > eval.c:810: error: for each function it appears in.) > eval.c:812: error: ‘COMMANDCMD’ undeclared (first use in this function) > make[3]: *** [eval.o] Error 1 > > This is because the src/mkbuiltins script ends up generating an incomplete > src/builtins.h file. This, in turn, is caused by 'sort -u -k 3,3' not > working correctly. > > The attached patch fixes/works around things by setting LC_CTYPE=C, thus > overriding the build environment (in a similar manner to the earlier call to > 'sort' in that same script). I've changed it to use LC_COLLATE. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-31[BUILTIN] Fix NUL termination in readcmdHerbert Xu
Commit 55c46b7286f5d9f2d8291158203e2b61d2494420 ([BUILTIN] Honor tab as IFS whitespace when splitting fields in readcmd) introduced a bug where sometimes garbage would follow the last field preceding the end-of-line. This was caused by an off-by-one error in the string length calculation. This patch fixes the bug. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-11[EVAL] Revert SKIPEVAL into EXEXITHerbert Xu
Now that eval handles EV_TESTED correctly, we can remove the SKIPEVAL hack and simply use EXEXIT for set -e. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-11[EVAL] Pass EV_TESTED into evalcmdHerbert Xu
This patch fixes the case where the eval command is used with set -e and as part of a construct that should not cause the shell to abort, e.g., as part of the condition of an if statement. This is achieved by propagating the EV_TESTED flag into the evalstring function through evalcmd. As this alters the prototype of evalcmd it is now invoked explicitly by evalbltin. The built-in infrastructure has been changed to accomodate this special case. In order to ensure that the EXIT trap is properly executed this patch clears evalskip in exitshell. This wasn't needed before because of the broken way evalstring worked where it always clears evalskip when called by minusc. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-11[SHELL] Add preliminary LINENO supportRocky Bernstein
Looks like in contrast to what the dash.1 manual page says, expansion of PS{1,2,4} does work. Here is a little patch to set LINENO. The ways in that it is less than ideal mirror the ways that the line number error reporting is also less than ideal. For example if you run this: ( x=$((1/0)) # Just to add another line # And another ) # error reports this line The error reported will be the closing parenthesis even though I think most people would prefer the error to be the one where x was set. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-08-11[BUILTIN] Honor tab as IFS whitespace when splitting fields in readcmdStefan Potyra
When I try to split fields by tabs, dash doesn't honour multiple tabs between fields as whitespace (at least that's how I interpret [1], please correct me if I'm wrong). #!/bin/sh # "1\t2\t\t3" TESTSTRING="1 2 3" # only "\t" IFS=" " echo "$TESTSTRING" | while read p1 p2 p3; do echo "p1=${p1}, p2=${p2}, p3=${p3}" done Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>