From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 22:44:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0300: workaround bug in FreeBSD < 10 sh
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTEO--BCE_hMsWNowx7R9pP-oag2_ugEPDTPAizqOMDsQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200514220346.GA3074610@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 6:03 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Just to be clear, if you run:
>
> foo() {
>   for i in "$@"; do
>     echo "arg:$i"
>   done
>   sed s/^/stdin:/
> }
> set -- outer
> foo inner <<EOF
> $1
> EOF
>
> do you get:
>
> arg:inner
> stdin:inner

That is indeed the result with the FreeBSD 9.3 shell. Seems buggy.
Assigning $1, $2, ... to variables (local or not) as Carlo's patch
does seems to work around the buggy behavior.