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Re: unset IFS and ${v=$*} CTLNUL leakage
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: unset IFS and ${v=$*} CTLNUL leakage |
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Tue, 5 Mar 2019 13:48:40 -0500 |
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On 3/4/19 10:53 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> The changes in [1] to parameter_brace_expand_rhs (for the fix for [2])
> created (exposed?) an issue with ${var=$*} expansion when $* is
> multiple nulls and IFS is unset:
Yes, it was exposed, since the `=' operator takes some special handling
that affects state.
> This seems to be related to the special-casing of unset IFS at [3]
> which I don't really understand if an unset IFS is supposed to be the
> same as $' \t\n'. Getting rid of that "IFS unset" case and having the
> "IFS set to non-null value" case apply to unset IFS seems to resolve
> this issue.
Thanks for the pointer to the fix.
Chet
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