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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:24:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Lev Bishop <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with ash-20040127-3 (Attn: bash maintainer)
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Lev Bishop wrote:

> On 08/07/05, Eric Blake  wrote:
> > Meanwhile, you will have to wait patiently until the upstream
> > maintainer releases a patch (because I haven't the faintest clue
> > where in the lexer to look for fixing his parse error).  Repeated
> > pinging on the cygwin list will not help speed up the situation.
>
> In bash 2.05b, file parse.y, line 2179ish:
>
>       else if MBTEST(was_dollar && (ch == '(' || ch == '{' || ch ==
> '['))       /* ) } ] */
>         /* check for $(), $[], or ${} inside quoted string. */
>
> Maybe something like:
>       else if MBTEST(open=='"' && was_dollar && (ch == '(' || ch == '{'
>                || ch == '['))       /* ) } ] */
>         /* check for $(), $[], or ${} inside " quoted string. */
>
> Might do the trick?
>
> I haven't tried it. Would need testing from someone who understands
> POSIX quoting in detail, to ensure it doesn't break other convoluted
> quoting rules...

FYI: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00396.html>.
	Igor
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