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

[Andreas Schwab]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's a better test case:
>
>     $ /bin/sh -c 'f(){ local s=$IFS; test -n "$s"; }; f'
>     [Exit 1]
>
> And based on that, here's a patch to gnulib's tests/init.sh
> that solves the problem more generally:
> (but this is not enough for coreutils, since some
> failing tests don't yet use init.sh)

Why not just add the quotes?  This isn't formally an assignment, so the
behaviour of the shell is reasonable after all.

Andreas.

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