Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.

[Tim Rice]

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On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Eric Blake wrote:

> [adding autoconf to document some shell bugs]
[snip]
> And meanwhile, I found a ksh93 parsing bug (don't know where to report
> that):
> 
> $ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> ksh: syntax error at line 1: `}' unexpected
> $ ksh -c 'a() { echo hi; }; a'
> hi
> $ bash -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
> $ /bin/sh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
> 
> ksh is the only shell that requires a space between the ) and {, even
> though the ) is a metacharacter and should not need trailing space (even
> Solaris /bin/sh got that right).

Hmm, on my UnixWare machine

$ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
hi
$ ksh88 -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
hi

Using the 'set -o emacs' ^V trick Ralf taught me, we see
ksh is Version M-12/28/93e-SCO
ksh88 is Version M-11/16/88h

On my Solaris 10 box with ksh Version M-11/16/88i
$ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
hi

Even my old OpenLinux 3.1.1 machine running pdksh-5.2.14-6MR gets it right

What version of ksh did you test on?

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