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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Message-Id: <199512101803.TAA08119@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: bug in /bin/sh for loops
To: bjj@sequent.com (Ben Jackson)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 19:03:05 +0100 (MET)
Cc: bugs@freebsd.org
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199510271006.DAA29250@crg8.sequent.com> from "Ben Jackson" at Oct 27, 95 03:06:55 am
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As Ben Jackson wrote:
> 
> [FreeBSD 2.1.0 951005-SNAP]
> 
> The appended shell script doesn't have the expected output. [...]

> VAR=0
> for X in 1 2 3
> do
> 	echo $VAR
> 	VAR=$X
> done
> 
> VAR=0
> for X in 1 2 3
> do
> 	echo $VAR
> 	VAR=$X
> 	/bin/ls > /dev/null &
> done

This has been fixed as a side-effect of applying the patch from PR
#bin/880, in revision 1.10 of sh/parser.c.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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