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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shell utilities: Guard against expr' magic tokens.
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:39:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vodz5vyd6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrne3tihk.1dq.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk> (Mark Wooding's message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:01:24 +0000 (UTC)")

Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> writes:

> From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
>
> Some words, e.g., `match', are special to expr(1), and cause strange
> parsing effects.  Track down all uses of expr and mangle the arguments
> so that this isn't a problem.

Gaaaaaaaaaah.  

    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/expr.html

says use of length, substr, index, match as string arguments
produces unspecified results, so obviously the program was
wrong.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-13 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-13 22:01 [PATCH] Shell utilities: Guard against expr' magic tokens Mark Wooding
2006-04-13 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-04-14  2:12 ` [PATCH] Fix-up previous expr changes Junio C Hamano

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