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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: sh bug
Message-ID: <4705@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 88 03:35:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc6.4705
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Lines: 25


	The shell doesn't get quoting inside back-quote constructions
right; back-slashes are lost.  They are also lost from the output
of the command run in the back-quote construction.  Both problems
can be fixed in the same place:

*** /tmp/sh5.c.orig	Fri Jun  3 23:32:19 1988
--- sh5.c	Tue May 31 17:27:01 1988
***************
*** 26,32 ****
  		return(c);
  	}
  	c = readc();
! 	if (ec != '\'') {
  		if(c == '\\') {
  			c = readc();
  			if (c == '\n' && ec != '\"')
--- 26,32 ----
  		return(c);
  	}
  	c = readc();
! 	if (ec != '\'' && ec != '`' && e.iop->task != XGRAVE) {
  		if(c == '\\') {
  			c = readc();
  			if (c == '\n' && ec != '\"')