Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:49:59 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'for' unexpected. Message-ID: <20030410124959.A92534@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <200304100239.h3A2dLLo072238@freefall.freebsd.org>; from keramida@freebsd.org on Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:39:21PM -0700 References: <20030408174535.CA3285D07@ptavv.es.net> <200304100239.h3A2dLLo072238@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:39:21PM -0700, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 10:45:38 2003 > > To: Scott Carmichael <freebsd@jobeus.net> > > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 10:45:35 -0700 > > cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: 'for' unexpected. > > > > > So, anyways, anyone know what this could be? I can't seem to even type > > > a 'for' statement in sh and make it work. Eek. > > > > See the archives. This is a problem reported earlier this week. > > > > Work around: > > cd /usr/src/bin/sh > > make clean > > make > > make install > > cd /usr/src > > make installworld > > Using a userland and kernel from Sunday, April 6 2003, I hit this when > trying to upgrade to today's current too. Unfortunately, rebuilding > /bin/sh didn't quite work while I was in single-user mode... Probably > because the file /bin/sh is 'in use'. I've brought my workstation > up by running while in single user mode: > > # exec /bin/csh > name# cp /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/sh > name# exit > > I'll try rebuilding now. Who knows *why* this happens? I think it > definitely deserves an UPDATING entry. I'm interested and puzzled at why this is happening -- /bin/sh itself hasn't changed for the past 3 weeks. In the 3 weeks before that, about 4 lines of code were changed. I suspect a bug in libc or a bug in one of the tools that generates the shell's parsing code (awk, sed, etc.). Tim
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