bash bug - expansion of env vars containing '?'

[Kevin D. Clark]

Derek Martin writes:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:01:58AM -0500, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> > 
> > Michael ODonnell writes:
> > 
> > > Maybe it's behavior that's been broken forever and
> > > they only just got around to fixing it...
> > 
> > I'm not so sure; I think that this bug must be somewhat recent:
> 
> I think that what mod meant was that the old behavior is considered
> broken, and the new behavior is thought to fix it.

I guess that I'm going under the assumption that mod's shell isn't
doing anything non-obvious with pathname expansion, nullglob is not
set, GLOBIGNORE isn't set, etc.  I consider this to be extremely
unlikely.  If all of this is true, then (unless I am overlooking
something else) there is a bug.

Regards,

--kevin
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