Re: [BUGS] test failure in t4014-format-patch.sh with master

From: Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Date: Apr 17, 2008, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID: <6b8a91420804170844t2776e8a7sf735e3f87a95298b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804170806430.2879@woody.linux-foundation.org>

2008/4/17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:

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>  On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Remi Vanicat wrote:

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>  > $ ./t4014-format-patch.sh
>  > [....]
>  > * FAIL 8: replay did not screw up the log message
>
>  Hmm. Doesn't fail for me.

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>  I wonder if it is some shell-specific variable expansion issue. What's
>  your /bin/sh? (I assume, from your email address, that you're using
>  Debian, and I thought Debian used bash, but maybe that's not true).

Debian used bash, but I use dash as /bin/sh

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>  What does
>
>         a="hello\nhi"
>         echo $a
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>  result in?

here is the problem:

$/bin/sh $ a="hello\nhi" $ echo $a hello hi

Mmm, I Wonder what posix said about this, but it look like a bug with dash