2014-11-03 15:40:46 +, Ian Jackson:
I have just made this wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/Punctuation
[...]
Just a wee note:
Character Use in Debian packaging Other important
uses
[...]
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2014-10-15 12:13:06 +0200, Thorsten Glaser:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
$*, $@, $* were not special in any way. They just underwent
the same rules as other variables. Only $@ was.
This changed in POSIX sh though. I remember having
to change some things in mksh to adhere
2014-10-15 16:19:00 +0200, Thorsten Glaser:
[...]
tglase@tglase:~ $ dash -c 'IFS=; x=abc; printf %s\n ${x#$*}' x a b | sed
-n l
a$
abc$
tglase@tglase:~ $ ksh93 -c 'IFS=; x=abc; printf %s\n ${x#$*}' x a b | sed
-n l
c$
tglase@tglase:~ $ mksh -c 'IFS=; x=abc; printf %s\n ${x#$*}' x a b |
2014-10-07 15:03:05 +0200, Thorsten Glaser:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Russ Allbery wrote:
If we were to decide that #309415 should be fixed in policy (and hence
posh), then it should be done by requiring support for the obsolescent
The problems with posh and dash are also the sheer number of
2014-10-13 12:21:33 +0200, Thorsten Glaser:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Dominik George wrote:
foo='x[$(rm -rf /)]'
echo $(( foo ))
Guess when the array index is evaluated? Now mind that it could be
This is fully and completely a user error. (User being the script.)
user-provided.
2014-09-29 09:22:58 +1000, Russell Stuart:
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 16:47 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
I've attempted to port the many shell scripts I've written over the
years to dash. The three irritants are:
- pipefail,
http://cfajohnson.com/shell/cus-faq-2.html#Q11.
That's
2014-10-02 10:06:50 -0400, shawn wilson:
[...]
I hate the idea of dash. It's not more secure (see vmware cve for an
example) and I think it was more of an accident than anything else this
didn't hit dash too.
[...]
That CVE is not about a bug in dash. There are a few
misconceptions around that
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