Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, rillig@NetBSD.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/2006 19:55:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/33472; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, rillig@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:51:03 -0400

 On May 12,  7:50pm, david@l8s.co.uk (David Laight) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
 
 | The following reply was made to PR bin/33472; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
 | To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 | Cc: 
 | Subject: Re: bin/33472: /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
 | Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 20:57:55 +0100
 | 
 |  On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:25:03PM +0000, rillig@NetBSD.org wrote:
 |  > >Number:         33472
 |  > >Category:       bin
 |  > >Synopsis:       /bin/sh does not expand "$@" correctly
 |  > 
 |  > $ set -- "" ""
 |  > $ echo $#
 |  > 2
 |  > $ echo "$@" | sed s,\$,EOL,
 |  > EOL
 |  > $
 |  
 |  $ set -- a ""; echo "$@" | hexdump -C
 |  also fails to add a space following the 'a'.
 
 Something is trimming traling spaces.
 
 christos