ash: [PARSER] Handle backslash newlines properly after dollar sign
Fixes var_unbackslash1.tests failure.
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[PARSER] Handle backslash newlines properly after dollar sign
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:34:42PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/26/2014 06:15 AM, Oleg Bulatov wrote:
> > While playing with sh generators I found that dash and bash have different
> > interpretations for <slash><newline> sequence.
> >
> > $ dash -c 'EDIT=xxx; echo $EDIT\
> >> OR'
> > xxxOR
>
> Buggy.
> >
> > $ dash -c 'echo "$\
> > (pwd)"'
> > $(pwd)
> >
> > Is it undefined behaviour in POSIX?
>
> No, it's well-defined, and dash is buggy.
...
I agree. This patch should resolve this problem and similar ones
affecting blackslash newlines after we encounter a dollar sign.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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