Re: [PATCH] don't record empty IFS scan regions

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martijn Dekker <martijn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> evalvar() records empty expansion results (varlen == 0) as string
> regions that need to be scanned for IFS characters. This is pointless,
> because there is nothing to split.
> 
> This patch fixes the bug that, given no positional parameters, unquoted
> $@ and $* incorrectly generate one empty field (they should generate no
> fields). Apparently that was a side effect of the above.

Please attach a reproducer as I cannot reproduce this problem.

Thanks,
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