Classes and scripts patches

Alexandre Oliva kaffe@rufus.w3.org
29 Jul 1998 16:17:40 -0300


PARMELAN Edouard <parmee@postecss.ncrfran.france.ncr.com> writes:

> * protect arguments for shell scripts,
>   essentially, $@ is change to "$@".

In fact, I've posted a patch that fixes this problem a few weeks ago,
but it seems to have been ignored :-(

In particular, the patch I posted uses the syntax ${1+"$@"} instead of
just "$@", because some (broken) shells will expand "$@" to an empty
argument if $# is zero.

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Alexandre Oliva
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil