2018-08-13 22:09 GMT-04:00 Eduardo A. Bustamante López <dual...@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 09:36:23PM -0400, Bize Ma wrote: > (...) > > Please, do not waste our time in incorrect claims. > > > > Do your homework and test ! > (...) > > > dualbus@ubuntu:~/src/gnu/bash$ bash /tmp/script > 4.4.19(1)-release > [foo bar baz quux][ foo bar baz quux ] > > So, it is confirmed that the bug exists in the present release, Is it not? > Did you test Bash 5.0? Because that's where the current bug fixes are going to. So, is it a "wont fix" for 4.4 (present release) ? > I don't see Chet releasing a new version of 4.4 to fix something that's already > fixed there. That version is not even beta, it is still alpha, are you asking that everyone should use non-released (and not yet tested as beta) alpha release ? > dualbus@ubuntu:~/src/gnu/bash$ cat /tmp/script > echo $BASH_VERSION > set -- " foo " " bar baz " " quux " > unset IFS > a=$* > b="$*" > printf '[%s]' "$a" "$b"; echo Thanks for copying the supplied script..... > dualbus@ubuntu:~/src/gnu/bash$ ./bash /tmp/script > 5.0.0(1)-alpha > [ foo bar baz quux ][ foo bar baz quux ] > > Thanks for testing. !! > Please read this thread: > > * http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-09/msg00058.html > So? It is not solved in that thread, it is even said that: > This is a bug in bash and it should be fixed, not excused. To which I agree. After a year, nothing else have been said about it. It seems about time to get it solved. Or say that it won't be.