Re: [PATCH] Define $as_echo and $as_echo_n for backward compatibility.

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/13/20 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

> I'm wondering if Chet has an update on the matter (adding bug-bash).
> Repeating some context:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/austin-group-l@opengroup.org/msg04237.html
> was a mail to the POSIX folks last June complaining about how bash 5.0's
> change to allow \ to trigger globbing has unintended consequences, and
> breaks many existing configure scripts based on the contents of the current
> directory.  I know the Austin Group finally settled on wording that does
> indeed explicitly state that unpatched bash 5.0 is buggy:

Not exactly. The decision was that bash-5.0 conformed to the original
wording, so the group adopted new wording to standardize the bash-4.4
behavior. Bash-5.1 will revert to the bash-4.4 behavior; the change
has been in the devel branch since last October.

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