Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 03:00:07 -0800 From: candy@kgc.co.jp To: freebsd-bugs Subject: bin/241: strange behavior of /bin/sh Message-ID: <199503131100.DAA02272@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 Mar 1995 12:58:54 %2B0900 <199503130358.MAA08766@xxx.kgc.co.jp>
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>Number: 241
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: strange behavior of /bin/sh
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 13 03:00:03 1995
>Originator: candy@kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)
>Organization:
Keisokugiken corp.
>Release: FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
>Description:
It seems /bin/sh handles `&' operator inside for loop incorrectly.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ cat foo
for i in a b c; do
xx=${xx}${i}
echo $xx
xx=${xx}${i}
echo $xx &
xx=${xx}${i}
echo $xx
done
$ sh foo
a
ab
abc
a
aa
ab
abb
abc
abcc
# This should be
a
aaa
aaab
aaabbb
aaabbbc
aaabbbccc
aa
aaabb
aaabbbcc
>Fix:
I don't know, but it seems /bin/sh of NetBSD 1.0 works well.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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