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Re: IFS in install-sh and mkinstalldirs
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: IFS in install-sh and mkinstalldirs |
Date: |
Wed, 10 May 2006 22:56:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
RW> Posix allows shells to have IFS unset at startup (and some older Debian
RW> ash versions -- IIRC distributed with RedHat -- do this); unset IFS is
RW> fine since the shell is required to behave as if it were set to space
RW> tab newline. However, set but empty IFS is different: it disables field
RW> splitting: oIFS=$IFS; ...; IFS=$oIFS.
RW> The patch below fixes this for install-sh and mkinstalldirs. OK?
Yes, thanks.
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