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Fix field splitting bug triggered by DEBUG trap
An unquoted variable expansion evaluated in a DEBUG trap action caused IFS field splitting to be deactivated in code executed after the trap action. Thanks to Koichi Nakashima for the reproducer: | v='' | trap ': $v' DEBUG | A="a b c" | set -- $A | printf '%s\n' "$@" | | Expected | | a | b | c | | Actual | | a b c src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c: sh_trap(): - Remove incorrect save/restore of sh.ifstable, the internal state table for field splitting. This reverts three lines added in ksh 93t+ 2009-11-30. Analysis: As an expansion is split into fields (macro.c, lines 2367-2471), sh.ifstable is modified. If that happens within a DEBUG trap, any modifications in ifstable are undone by the restoring memccpy, leaving an inconsistent state. src/cmd/ksh93/COMPATIBILITY: - Document the DEBUG trap fixes, particularly the incorrect inheritance by subshells and functions that some scripts may now rely on because this bug is so longstanding. (re: 2a835a2) src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh: - Add relevant tests. Resolves: #155 TODO: add a -T (-o functrace) option as in bash, which should allow subshells and ksh-style functions to inherit DEBUG traps. P.S.: The very handy multishell repo allows us to use 'git blame' to trace the origin of the recently fixed DEBUG trap bugs. The off-by-one error causing various bugs, reverted in 2a835a2, was introduced in ksh 93t 2008-07-25: multishell/ksh93@8e947ccf (fault.c, line 321) The incorrect check causing the exit status bug, reverted in d00b4b3, was introduced in ksh 93t 2008-11-04: multishell/ksh93@b1ade268 (fault.c, line 459) The ifstable save/restore causing the field splitting bug, reverted in this commit, was introduced in ksh 93t+ 2009-11-30: multishell/ksh93@53d9f009 (fault.c, lines 440, 444, 482) So all the bugs reported in #155 were fixed by simply reverting these specific changes. I think that they are some experiments that the developers simply forgot to remove. I've suspected such a thing multiple times before. ksh93 was developed by researchers who were genius innovators, but incredibly sloppy maintainers.
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