Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jim Meyering <[email protected]> writes: > >> Here's a better test case: >> >> $ /bin/sh -c 'f(){ local s=$IFS; test -n "$s"; }; f' >> [Exit 1] >> >> And based on that, here's a patch to gnulib's tests/init.sh >> that solves the problem more generally: >> (but this is not enough for coreutils, since some >> failing tests don't yet use init.sh) > > Why not just add the quotes? This isn't formally an assignment, so the > behaviour of the shell is reasonable after all.
Actually, I'm doing both for the upcoming release. Adding the quotes as a stop-gap measure, because it feels like a kludge. I'll remove it once I've converted all tests to use init.sh. IMHO, the fact that VAR=$OTHER_VAL never needs quotes should imply that `local VAR=$OTHER_VAL' also requires no quotes.
