Re: [coreutils] Re: Builds of coreutils-8.6.19-1369f

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 06:14:05PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > - Posix does not require IFS to be set upon script startup.  It only 
> > requires
> > that, if IFS is unset, word splitting ought to behave as if it were set to
> > space, tab, and newline, in that order.  That is why the startup code of all
> > autotools scripts explicitly sets IFS, so that saving and restoring works.
> 
> Thanks.  That's good to know, but it appears not to be an issue
> for any shell that gets past the init.sh tests.

Are you sure?  It affects any test that saves and restores IFS in any
way.

Cheers,
Ralf