>Number:         11317
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /bin/sh ignores unbalanced ) in ``s
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 26 08:25:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Hubert Feyrer
>Release:        netbsd-1-5 as of 20001026 (memalloc.c,v 1.21.10.1)
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD noon 1.5_ALPHA2 NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 (NOON) #52: Sun Oct 8 23:03:52 MEST 2000 feyrer@noon:/usr/cvs/src-1.5/sys/arch/i386/compile/NOON i386


>Description:
	Our /bin/sh seems to ignore any unbalanced trailing ')'s in 
	expressions evaluated in ``s.

>How-To-Repeat:
	noon% sh
	$ echo `date )))`
	Thu Oct 26 17:16:49 MEST 2000
	$ echo `date)))`
	Thu Oct 26 17:16:58 MEST 2000
	$ echo `date)`
	Thu Oct 26 17:17:03 MEST 2000
	$ 

>Fix:
	No clue.

	The same thing on solaris:

	rfhpc8317% sh
	$ echo `date )))`
	syntax error: `)' unexpected
	$ echo `date)))`
	syntax error: `)' unexpected
	$ echo `date)`
	syntax error: `)' unexpected
	$ 

	(same for ksh)
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