Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i586 OS: linux Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0 -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0/../readline-5.0 Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux' -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -pipe -g -fbranch-probabilities uname output: Linux omnfr33 2.6.13-15.10-smp #1 SMP Fri May 12 16:21:47 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Machine Type: i586-suse-linux
Bash Version: 3.0 Patch Level: 16 Release Status: release description: according to this paper: http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/shdiffs.html "If IFS is null, there is no separator, for example: $ IFS=" $ set a b c $ echo "$*" abc " This does not work in ba/sh even when set -o posix is used there is also a testcase for that non-posix behaviour. note: i am working on porting the testcases to busybox ash. is anyone especially interested in testcases ? re, walter _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash