From 2332759d7abfa3c9cd8bd17d27e9db94fbce1327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 19:17:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] stdenv: fix nix develop

This was introduced in #360466.
---
 pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh
index 04382f4a89337..541689287970b 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh
@@ -450,7 +450,9 @@ concatStringsSep() {
             -a*)
                 # \036 is the "record separator" character. We assume that this will never need to be part of
                 # an argument string we create here. If anyone ever hits this limitation: Feel free to refactor.
-                local IFS=$'\036' ;;
+                # To avoid leaking an unescaped rs character when dumping the environment with nix, we use printf
+                # in a subshell.
+                local IFS="$(printf '\036')" ;;
             *)
                 local IFS=" " ;;