On Wed, Aug 14, 2024, at 11:45 AM, Andy Fiddaman wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> Quite true. Even for OmniOS, we don't know whether the bug is in the
>> currently supported releases. If it is present, then it's valid to
>> worry about the bug, perhaps by more strongly preferring bash to ksh
>> (since there seems to be no practical way to detect the ksh bug).
>
> I suspect the bug is not present in any of the supported OmniOS
> releases which have the newer ksh 93u.
>
> $ printf "${.sh.version}\n"
> Version jM 93u+ 2012-08-01
>
> However, I am happy to test on a range of OmniOS versions and report
> back if somebody can please point me at the exact archive/commit that
> showed up the error on OmniOS r151030.
Probably the easiest way to test is with the self-contained test case
attached to the Savannah bug report:
<https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/t-001fa2.sh.gz?file_id=50563>.
See <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110403#comment7> for usage
instructions.
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