Re: dash bug: double-quoted "\" breaks glob protection for next char

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:47:07AM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>
> It seems like the new control character doesn't get escaped in one place
> where it should be, and gets lost because of that:
> 
> Unpatched:
> 
> $ dash -c 'x=`printf \\\211X`; echo $x | cat -v'
> M-^IX
> 
> Patched:
> 
> $ src/dash -c 'x=`printf \\\211X`; echo $x | cat -v'
> X

Hmm, it works here.  Can you check that your Makefile is up-to-date
and the generated syntax.c looks like this:

const char basesyntax[] = {
      CEOF,    CSPCL,   CWORD,   CCTL,
      CCTL,    CCTL,    CCTL,    CCTL,
      CCTL,    CCTL,    CCTL,    CCTL,

Cheers,
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