shell: document another arithmetic discrepancy with bash

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/shell/ash_test/ash-arith/arith-assign-in-varexp1.right b/shell/ash_test/ash-arith/arith-assign-in-varexp1.right
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1feb307d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell/ash_test/ash-arith/arith-assign-in-varexp1.right
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+7:7
+x=3
diff --git a/shell/ash_test/ash-arith/arith-assign-in-varexp1.tests b/shell/ash_test/ash-arith/arith-assign-in-varexp1.tests
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..fc8ac9d97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell/ash_test/ash-arith/arith-assign-in-varexp1.tests
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+exec 2>&1
+a='x=1'
+b='x=2'
+c='x=3'
+# The variables should evaluate immediately when they encountered,
+# not when they go into an operation. Here, order of evaluation
+# of names to numbers should be a,b,c - not b,c,a:
+echo 7:$((a+b*c))
+echo "x=$x"