On 26/11/2015 22:37, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2015-11-26 20:44:26 +0100, Gioele Barabucci: >> Hello, >> >> I am forwarding a bug [1] reported by a Debian user: dash incorrectly >> uses `$*` instead of the requested `$@` inside variable assignments. >> The current version of dash is affected by this bug. >> >> A simple test from the original reporter: >> >> $ dash -c 'IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@" ; x="$@" ; echo "$x"' >> a b c >> a:b:c > [...] > > This behaviour is what I expect and is common to other shells as > well. Hi, so from the answers I got this looks like an intended behaviour. Fair enough. :) For the sake of triage I will then mark the Debian bug as wontfix. Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci <gioele@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html