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Re: CTLNUL leakage in bash-20190220


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: CTLNUL leakage in bash-20190220
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:20:52 -0400
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On 3/8/19 7:18 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:26 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>> This is still a WIP, keep the test cases coming.
> 
> bash removes the surrounding space in these cases (all other shells
> print `< X >'):

Thanks for the report.

> 
>     IFS=; set -- X
>     printf "<%s>" ${0+ "$@" }
>     <X>
>     printf "<%s>" ${0+ $@ }
>     <X>
>     printf "<%s>" ${0+ $* }
>     <X>

It has to do with $@ and $* and null IFS; any other combination works fine.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/



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