Am 15.04.2011 00:13, schrieb Rémy Oudompheng:
> And do we really have to filter out invalid variable names? Isn't there
> some documentation that says the kernel isn't supposed to have absurd
> command line parameters (like unescaped >, <, &, |)

The kernel allows all kind of crappy stuff. It even exports almost
everything with a = in it to the environment (but not everything, it
strips root= for example). If you put something like (/%$=abc on the
command line, it will export a variable (%$ into the environment.

The situation is pretty annoying, as I don't know for sure which
variables it exports and which it doesn't, so we still try to parse
everything.

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