Re: bin/50827 (sh -c ': "${x=$((1))}"' gives bogus syntax error)

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/50827; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        rhansen%rhansen.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/50827 (sh -c ': "${x=$((1))}"' gives bogus syntax error)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:43:47 +0700

     Date:        Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:57:32 -0500
     From:        christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
     Message-ID:  <20160219145732.1539C17FDAF%rebar.astron.com@localhost>
 
   | If you are looking into quoting, please look at: bin/43469.
 
 Will do.
 
   | Also it might be worthwhile to compare ours with FreeBSD's sh
 
 I will look.
 
   | and switch to their code if it is better.
 
 I can offer an opinion (and it is not just a wholesale replacement) offer
 some patches perhaps, but the actual switch (if it were to happen) would
 need to be done by someone else...
 
 kre