double-quote, simple-quote and eval [Was: ybin and NetBSD]

["Edouard G. Parmelan" <egp@free.fr>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:14:34AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:27:23PM +0200, Edouard G. Parmelan wrote:
> >      ## assign variables for configured menu options.
> > -    [ "$usemount" = no -a "$bless" = yes ] && YB="yaboot GNU l $ofboot ,${BS}${BS}yaboot"
> > -    [ "$usemount" = yes -o "$bless" = no ] && YB="yaboot GNU l $ofboot ,${OFDIR}yaboot"
> > -    [ -n "$bsd" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && BSD="bsd BSD b $bsd ,${BS}ofwboot.elf"
> > -    [ -n "$macos" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && MAC="macos MacOS m $macos ,${BS}${BS}:tbxi"
> > -    [ -n "$macosx" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && MX="macosx MacOSX x $macosx ,${OSXBOOT}"
> > -    [ -n "$darwin" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && DW="darwin Darwin d $darwin ,${BS}${BS}:tbxi"
> > -    [ "$cdrom" = yes ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && CD="cd CDROM c cd: ,${BS}${BS}:tbxi"
> > +    [ "$usemount" = no -a "$bless" = yes ] && YB="yaboot GNU l $ofboot ',${BS}${BS}yaboot'"
> > +    [ "$usemount" = yes -o "$bless" = no ] && YB="yaboot GNU l $ofboot ',${OFDIR}yaboot'"
> > +    [ -n "$bsd" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && BSD="bsd BSD b $bsd ',${BS}ofwboot.elf $bsd_options'"
> > +    [ -n "$macos" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && MAC="macos MacOS m $macos ',${BS}${BS}:tbxi'"
> > +    [ -n "$macosx" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && MX="macosx MacOSX x $macosx ',${OSXBOOT}'"
> > +    [ -n "$darwin" ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && DW="darwin Darwin d $darwin ',${BS}${BS}:tbxi'"
> > +    [ "$cdrom" = yes ] && OS=$(($OS + 1)) && CD="cd CDROM c cd: ',${BS}${BS}:tbxi'"
> 
> i am almost certain this quoting is broken.  it will cause these
> values to not be expanded and thus taken litterally.  i don't see why
> your making gratuitous changes here.  

I don't agree.  Inside double-quote " .... " a simple quote (') is a
normal character.  I add simple quote to group into one argument and
proctect special shell caracters.  Later, I use "eval" in place of
direct call.

	FIRST=`eval $cmd`

After the following assignment:

    BSD="bsd BSD b $bsd ',${BS}ofwboot.elf $bsd_options'"

the value of variable BSD is:

         bsd BSD b hd:10 ',\\ofwboot.elf hd:11,/netbsd'

Let's see step by step what's append.

1. Setup our test environment

    $ cat echo-args.sh
    #!/bin/sh
    while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
	    echo "[$1]"; shift
    done

    $ BSD=`cat <<EOF
    bsd BSD b hd:10 ',\\ofwboot.elf hd:11,/netbsd'
    EOF`

    $ echo $BSD
    bsd BSD b hd:10 ',\\ofwboot.elf hd:11,/netbsd'

2. And now study argument passing

    $ sh ./echo-args.sh $BSD
    [bsd]
    [BSD]
    [b]
    [hd:10]
    [',\\ofwboot.elf]
    [hd:11,/netbsd']

    $ eval sh ./echo-args.sh $BSD
    [bsd]
    [BSD]
    [b]
    [hd:10]
    [,\\ofwboot.elf hd:11,/netbsd]

RUOK ?

> >  [ $(parseconf ck timeout) = 0 ] && timeout=`parseconf str timeout`
> > -[ $(parseconf ck bsd) = 0 ] && bsd=`parseconf str bsd`
> > +if [ $(parseconf ck bsd) = 0 ]; then
> > +    tmp=`parseconf str bsd`
> > +    bsd=`busybox expr "$tmp" : '\([^ ]*\)'`
> > +    bsd_options=`busybox expr "$tmp" : "$bsd"'[ ]*\(.*\)'`
> > +fi
> 
> no way dood, this is a GROSS hack.  i won't depend on busybox in this
> manner.

Oops, sorry, I write "busybox expr" in place of "expr" to be sure that
in a buzybox environment it will work.

> sorry but i will not accept this patch.

Will you ?
-- 
Edouard G. Parmelan
http://egp.free.fr