* Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 06:14:05PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > - Posix does not require IFS to be set upon script startup. It only > > requires > > that, if IFS is unset, word splitting ought to behave as if it were set to > > space, tab, and newline, in that order. That is why the startup code of all > > autotools scripts explicitly sets IFS, so that saving and restoring works. > > Thanks. That's good to know, but it appears not to be an issue > for any shell that gets past the init.sh tests.
Are you sure? It affects any test that saves and restores IFS in any way. Cheers, Ralf
