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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-test: add virtio-serial test
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Alex Bradbury |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-test: add virtio-serial test |
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Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:20:40 +0000 |
On 22 December 2011 15:58, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Shell assignments do not need quoting, since they are not subject to
> argument splitting or filename expansion in the first place.
You're right, that was an incorrectly chosen example.
> Blindly requiring double-quoting of all shell variables and command
> substitutions can actually introduce problems if you care about
> portability to ancient shells
Is there really a need to care about anything but POSIX compliant shells?
Alex