Hi Brian,
I trust that you are well.
In August of 2024, I discovered a bug concerning field splitting that affects
OpenBSD sh(1) and its derivatives, though I neglected to report it at the time.
To wit:
$ sh -c 'IFS=:; path=:; set -- $path; printf {%s} "$#" "$@"; echo'
{0}
This outcome does not conform to the Shell Command Language specification.
Other implementations that I have tried produce the expected results. For
instance:
$ dash -c 'IFS=:; path=:; set -- $path; printf {%s} "$#" "$@"; echo'
{1}{}
See also:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-functions.git/commit/?id=116645c35885
Copying in bugs@ in case this is best handled on-list. Please note that I am
not subscribed.
Regards,
--
Kerin Millar
