When I run a /bin/sh command of the form `name=value command' under i386
NetBSD 1.0 it fails with the message 'Out of file descriptors'. It
only works as expected if a semicolon is placed after the name=value
part. This is not a requirement of any other /bin/sh that I am familar
with, and shouldn't be necessary according to my interpretation of
this extract from the man page:


       Simple Commands

       If a simple command has been recognized, the shell per-
       forms the following actions:

       1) Leading words of the form ``name=value'' are stripped
       off and assigned to the environment of the simple command.
       Redirection operators and their arguments (as described
       below) are stripped off and saved for processing.


Is it a bug, or is the semicolon requirement enshrined in POSIX
1003.2, to which /bin/sh apparently conforms?


Jim
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