bug in /bin/sh

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to chris at cetia4.UUCP (Christian Bertin):
>First, I apologized if this is an ancient bug. There is a problem in the
>argument passing when shell functions are used: The expansion of $* turns
>quoted strings into multiple arguments.

>       $ mail() /usr/bin/mailx $*

Feature alert!  That's the way $* is supposed to work.
What you probably want is:

	$ mail() /usr/bin/mailx ${1+"$@"}

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