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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:46:46 +0100
From: David Sastre <d DOT sastre DOT medina AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:46:26AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>=20
> Le 17/03/2011 23:43, Angelo Graziosi a =E9crit :
>=20
> >p=3D'/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows
> >NT/CurrentVersion/Windows/Device'
> >
> >[ -e "${p}" ] && read -r PRINTER < "${p}" && PRINTER=3D${PRINTER%%,*}
>=20
> read -r "$p" returns 1 bcoz "The return code is zero, unless
> end-of-file is encountered"...
>=20
> alternative :
>=20
> [ -e "${p}" ] && IFS=3D',' read -r PRINTER dummy < "${p}"

Works in bash, posh, mksh and zsh, but fails (at least for me) in
dash.
As it seems I can't find a short-circuiting option that works, I'll
use the `if' statement, since it appears to work for all shells.

All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test.
I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator
in the user's home ownership test to a chained test:

elif [ ! -O "${HOME}" ] && [ "${HOME#/home/}" !=3D "${HOME}" ]; then ...

which works for all shells but still fails for posh since posh does
not implement the -O test either (as per POSIX compliance, right?).=20
This is not easy to solve without rethinking that test, so I plan to=20
release 4.0-6 with this known bug, with the following workaround:=20
the code block that sets $HOME is now enclosed in a function that=20
tests for posh and returns before the ownership test.
The functionality is lost for those who use posh as a login shell (hopefull=
y,
not too many...).
It would be included in the announcement message as well.

This has to be reported to the posh maintainer as well, but:

a) As stated in the manpage, posh -li should read /etc/profile, but it
doesn't (and that's why it doesn't complain about [[ presence in
/etc/profile)

b) It fails to source some of the /etc/profile.d/*.sh scripts due to not
finding its documented alias builtin:

$ . /etc/profile.d/mc.sh
posh: /etc/profile.d/mc.sh:1: alias: not found
$ builtin alias
posh: builtin: alias: not a builtin

To workaround this, posh won't source them, it's been explicitly disabled.

c) $POSH_VERSION returns literally "POSH_VERSION" (FWIW, both in cygwin
and GNU/Linux), instead of its version identifier, as bash and mksh do.
Maybe it's the expected (though uninformative) behaviour or a known
bug.

Last, can someone confirm that calling `dash -i' from mksh results in=20
`dash: Bad substitution' errors? (IOW, make mksh your login shell, and
run dash -i from your prompt).

--=20
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