Re: Document weird bug of Solaris /bin/sh w.r.t. for loops

[Eric Blake]

On 07/01/2010 05:42 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hello autoconfers.
> 
> Is anyone aware of the following bug of Solaris /bin/sh w.r.t. for 
> loops?  I couldn't find any mention of it in the Autoconf manual, and
> I think that a proper description of the bug could be an useful 
> addition for the manual.
> $ /bin/sh -c 'for a in b=c x; do echo "$a"; done'
>  x

Freaky!  And yes, I confirmed that behavior.

No, I've never seen this bug mentioned before, and yes, mentioning it in
the manual would be worthwhile.  Thankfully, since:

> $ /bin/sh -c 'x="b=c"; for a in $x; do echo "$a"; done'
>   b=c

the bug only strikes for a word that looks like an assignment, and not
an expansion that ends up looking like an assignment, which means it
should be easy to a) grep for, and b) avoid.

Would you care to prepare a patch?

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