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standards/42829: Almquist shell does not perform parameter expansion on ${ENV}
>Number: 42829
>Category: standards
>Synopsis: Almquist shell does not perform parameter expansion on ${ENV}
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: standards-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 16 18:40:00 +0000 2010
>Originator: Richard Hansen
>Release: 5.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD deer-netbsd.bbn.com 5.0_STABLE NetBSD 5.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #4: Tue Feb
2 10:43:58 EST 2010
gdt%fnord.ir.bbn.com@localhost:/n0/obj/gdt-5/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
amd64
>Description:
NetBSD 5.0's /bin/sh does not perform parameter expansion on the contents of
the ENV environment variable before using it as a pathname to a file.
POSIX:2004 [1] and POSIX:2008 [2] (at least) require parameter expansion.
Also see PR #40639 [3], which is the same bug except applied to ${PS1} instead
of ${ENV}.
[1]
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_05_03>
[2]
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_05_03>
[3] <http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=40639>
>How-To-Repeat:
$ echo "echo foo" > foo
$ ENV="${PWD}/foo" /bin/sh -i
foo
$ exit
$ ENV='${PWD}/foo' /bin/sh -i
$ exit
$
Notice that "foo" is not printed when ${PWD}/foo is enclosed in single quotes.
>Fix:
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