sysrc bug

[Miklós Quartus]

On 6/1/21 5:54 AM, Gordon Tetlow via freebsd-security wrote:
> Surprised this old myth is still being repeated. Having used various
>> root shells in FreeBSD and other Unux/Linux systems for decades I have to
>> ask specifically what said reasons are, particularly considering
>> /usr/sbin/sysrc starts with "#!/bin/sh" (as does and should every system
>> shell script).
> It’s likely due to the quoting behavior of newlines passed as the argument when he ran the script, which varies between shell implementations. As I said, I’m not surprised something broke because many utilities are not tested with different shell behaviors.
>
> I also believe if we have a reproducible test case, we should go ahead and fix it.
>
> Gordon
I have Bash shell in my root terminal (did not change the default shell, 
just type 'bash -l' from the default csh) and I could not reproduce this 
error on 13.0-RELEASE . The rc.conf remains fine showing just the 
expected changes.

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Miklós
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