Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

2014-11-03 15:40:46 +, Ian Jackson: > I have just made this wiki page: > https://wiki.debian.org/Punctuation [...] Just a wee note: > Character Use in Debian packaging Other important >uses [...] > ^

Re: [OT] $*/$@/$IFS and Bourne vs Almquist vs Korn vs mksh

2014-10-15 16:19:00 +0200, Thorsten Glaser: [...] > tglase@tglase:~ $ dash -c 'IFS=; x=abc; printf "<%s>\n" ${x#$*}' x a b | sed > -n l > $ > $ > tglase@tglase:~ $ ksh93 -c 'IFS=; x=abc; printf "<%s>\n" ${x#$*}' x a b | sed > -n l > $ > tglase@tglase:~ $ mksh -c 'IFS=; x=abc; printf "<%s>\n" ${x#

$*/$@/$IFS and Bourne vs Almquist vs Korn vs mksh (Was: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012))

2014-10-15 12:13:06 +0200, Thorsten Glaser: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > > > $*, $@, "$*" were not special in any way. They just underwent > > the same rules as other variables. Only "$@" was. > > This changed in POSIX sh though.

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-02 10:06:50 -0400, shawn wilson: [...] > I hate the idea of dash. It's not more secure (see vmware cve for an > example) and I think it was more of an accident than anything else this > didn't hit dash too. [...] That CVE is not about a bug in dash. There are a few misconceptions around th

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-29 09:22:58 +1000, Russell Stuart: > On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 16:47 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > I've attempted to port the many shell scripts I've written over the > > > years to dash. The three irritants are: > > > > > > - pipefail, > > > >

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-13 12:21:33 +0200, Thorsten Glaser: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Dominik George wrote: > > > foo='x[$(rm -rf /)]' > > echo $(( foo )) > > > > Guess when the array index is evaluated? Now mind that it could be > > This is fully and completely a user error. (User being the script.) > > > user-p

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-07 15:03:05 +0200, Thorsten Glaser: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >> If we were to decide that #309415 should be fixed in policy (and hence > > >> posh), then it should be done by requiring support for the obsolescent > > The problems with posh and dash are also the shee