Any thoughts on bug 1142?

[Jean Wolter]

Paul Smith <psmith at netezza.com> writes:

> Anyone have any thoughts on this bug:
>
>     http://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=1142

busybox ash is derived from dash which has the same problem.

dash-0.5.3/src> ./dash -c 'if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi'
dash-0.5.3/src>

Maybe it would be a good idea to forward this bug report to the
authors of dash and integrate the fix to dash into busybox ash.

regards,
Jean