On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jim Meyering wrote: > That's due to a bug in OSF 5.1's /bin/sh. it's been Tru64 for a few years. time to upgrade. > When I ran that same test a few days ago, I found that it would > pass when invoked using bash, and so I didn't dig any deeper. > Your report has prompted me to do more. > > Here's some code to demonstrate the OSF /bin/sh failure: > > $ x=// > $ eval "echo \$x" > / I just ran this on two different Tru64 5.1 machines, and got two slashes. Perhaps there's a difference in patches. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
