Bug in ampersand handling in 1.13.0's ash

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 28 03:44:13 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:22, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
> Hey Denys!
> 
> 2008/11/25 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>:
> >
> > Try attached patch
> 
> Done. The problem's partially fixed:
> 
> /tmp # ./ash -c 'echo 1&'
> 1
> 
> However, the & is still not detected. This can be tested using:
> 
> /tmp # ./ash -c 'sleep 5&'
> 
> It sleeps for five seconds instead of letting it run in the background
> and giving me the prompt back immediately.

Should be fixed by updated patch:

http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.0/busybox-1.13.0-ash.patch

Can you retest?
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