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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>
Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/31627 sh(1) is broken - loss of data!
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:51:13PM +0100, Thomas Quinot wrote:

> > I still get unexpected results:
> You are absolutely right. My tests succeeded because I tried your
> script on -CURRENT, where this bug was fixed a few weeks ago.
> The fix to -STABLE was MFC'd last week:
> 
> Revision 1.31.2.3
> Branch: RELENG_4
> 
> MFC: BASESYNTAX, DQSYNTAX, SQSYNTAX and ARISYNTAX handles negative
> indexes.
>      Allow those to be used to properly quote characters in the shell
>      control character range.
> 
> PR:		31627
> 
> so updating your /bin/sh with the latest -STABLE version should resolve
> your problem.

I've updated to -STABLE and this works now as expected.
Thank you very much. PR should be closed now.

Eugene Grosbein


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