From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:02:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] t0003: properly quote $HOME
Message-ID: <20101018100237.GB5641@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <b280c19ddc25f2f3a76d1871ed79906663daa802.1287392872.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:

>                                               This would be valid
> according to POSIX, but bash 4 helpfully declines to execute the
> command in question with an "ambiguous redirection" error.

For the benefit of those wondering why they never saw this problem,
even after using bash for a while: bash in POSIX mode (e.g. when
running as "sh") does not have the same problem.

Presumably that's why this problem was not noticed until on a platform
without bash as /bin/sh, in v1.7.0-rc1~30 (work around an obnoxious
bash "safety feature" on OpenBSD, 2010-01-26).

I still like the patch. :)