Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > Non-standard proprietary additions of environment variables on which the
> > C library reacts can be a very dangerous security risk and should be
> > *most strongly* discouraged. They add semantics to your applications
> > that most users and developers do not know about. It might look
>
> LANGUAGE and LINGUA would be two other examples, wouldn't they?
>
Yes; I have seen server failures due to these additions.
-hpa
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