* rcexpandparam bug
@ 1997-10-02 16:04 Peter Stephenson
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From: Peter Stephenson @ 1997-10-02 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I've localised the rcexpandparam bug; unfortunately it's in the
paramsubst() code where I don't know what anything means.
In the long `if (isarr)' chunk, right at the start there is a test
for no array value being set, with plan9 (rcexpandparam) not in
operation. If that is true, something mysterious happens anyway and
non-null (whatever `n' is) is passed back. If plan9 is set, there's a
chunk later on which handles that: lots and lots of mysterious things
happen, until at the end there is another `if plan9' test to see if it
hasn't been unset: this two line chunk then returns null. That's
causing the problem: this gets passed back by stringsubst() to
prefork(), causing the latter to abort all further processing. The
result is that in things like `=ls $*', the =ls doesn't get expanded
if $* was null and rcexpandparam was set. I have no idea what to do
about it.
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