From: Will Rose <c...@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Another /bin/sh bug (with patch)
Date: 1999/05/24
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Michael Haardt <mich...@moria.de> wrote:
: I found the following bug in /bin/sh:

: case `echo ' '` in
: esac

: out of string space

: This is caused by an endless loop that is fixed with the patch
: below.  I start to wonder if anybody runs serious scripts with
: the Minix shell, because this is already the second bug I found
: in the shell trying to run a large script!

I gave up on the standard Minix shell a while back; the problem was
that its behaviour was pretty much undocumented (I couldn't tell bugs
from features), and the code too difficult to read.  I wrote a man page
for sh after a lot of experiments, but never tried to fix any of the
problems I found.  The newer ash shell seems a better bet if you want
reliability, though I haven't hammered it especially hard.


Will
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