On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 7:03 AM David Hobach <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> just stumbled across it and was wondering what a reviewer would expect
> from this code to do:
>
> ```
> #!/bin/bash
>
> function badCode {
> echo "bad code executed"
> }
>
> function testCode {
> #pick some existing file, nonexisting works too though
> echo "/etc/passwd"
> }
>
> function tfunc {
> local foo=
> foo="$(testCode)" || {echo "foo";}
> cat "$foo" || {
> badCode
> case $? in
> *)
> exit 1
> esac
> }
> }
>
> echo "Finished."
> ```
>
> At least on my amchine it executes "badCode" in both domU and dom0.
> I guess it's a bash bug and reported it accordingly, but anyway...
I’m not exactly sure what’s going on (and can’t bash right now) but output
grouping requires white space around { and } so that’s at least one problem
on the foo= assignment line. Maybe it’s being interpreted as closing the
function definition early?
B
>
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