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Re: IFS in install-sh and mkinstalldirs
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: IFS in install-sh and mkinstalldirs |
Date: |
Thu, 11 May 2006 19:28:17 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 |
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:56:04PM CEST:
> >>> "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.
Applied, thanks.
Cheers,
Ralf