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Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts



> The autoconf folks try very hard to write portable code.  They go to
> ridiculous lengths to support every major flavour of OS, compiler,
> make, and shell.  Indeed, Zack's tests show that only the recent ash
> behaves differently.
> 

more importantly (to me anyways) is the question of why do we ship an ash that
is completely different from the one the netbsd (upstream) and RH (another
packager).

For a long time Xu has played games with ash for seemingly his own amusement. 
Frankly it is growing old.



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