[BusyBox] Some problems with busybox-1.0.0-pre1

[Eric Spakman]

> Forward from dash mantainer:
> 
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>:
> 
>  >$ export S=`echo HELLO \"how are you\" JUNK`
>  > produces:
>  > export: 5: "how: bad variable name
> 
> 
> This is the correct behaviour.
> 
> export/readonly/alias does not cause special parsing in dash.
> 
> If you wish to prevent the word splitting, you must quote it
> or use normal assignment:
> 
> export S
> S=`...`
> 
> * End forward *
> 
> Eric Spakman wrote:
> 
>  > The same busybox config did start correct with the previous ash.
> 
> Oh yes. "ash" have more problem for "export VAR=hard/difficult expression"
> but trivail do fine sometimes.
> 
> I don`t know, why your debian dash work fine.
> I geted very fresh debian dash version.
> I was very surprised, that at additional opportunities, a code less.
> 
Vodz,

Thanks, the prompt is working ok now. I followed Erik Anderson's 
advice and use PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' instead of a "fancy prompt". 
The init.d starting problems were caused by some minor differences 
between how ash handles scripts and how the new dash does this. I 
could get it working by bypassing some scripts. I will look further 
into this and let you know.

An other problem I found is that 

for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do
     echo 1 > $f
done

doesn't work in dash (it's a piece from Debian 
/etc/init.d/networking), this was working in all the previous 
versions of ash. It complains about "directory not found" probably 
due to the wildcard /*/.

Regards,
Eric Spakman