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

2020-03-13 Thread 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 al

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

2020-03-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 3/13/20 2:22 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:13 PM Eric Blake wrote: Unpatched bash 5.0 has a bug where calling $as_echo that contains \ can result in unintended globbing, where the behavior of the expansion is dependent on the contents of the current directory. Nasty!