Hi, [No reason not to CC the report]
On Saturday 23 May 2009 06:06:00 Siegfried Gevatter wrote: > Hi, > > I want to ask you about bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530053 which you have > automatically reported against bubbros because its launcher script > uses «. /usr/games/bubbros $*». No, I did not automatically report it; all the reports were manually filed. > > I wanted to ask you what's the problem with this, because as far as I > can see it works fine with dash (and, in fact, the files containing > that have a shabang with «/bin/sh» which on Ubuntu already dash). This is actually an error because it assumes all /bin/sh's allow passing arguments to sourced scripts, while as a matter of fact only dash does that. Example: $ cat test foo=foo echo $foo . ./test.i $foo echo $foo $ cat test.i [ "$1" ] || foo=bar $ bash test foo foo $ dash test foo bar $ ksh test foo foo $ zsh test foo foo $ mksh test foo foo $ pdksh test foo foo $ busybox sh test foo foo Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
