On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:33:08 -0800
Garrett Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Cristian Greco <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > please consider the following patch for the 'clone06' syscall test.
> >
> > When running the test on a remote host with an ssh command the TERM 
> > environment
> > variable is not available. Use PWD instead, with a buffer size of 
> > MAXPATHLEN.
> >
> > This is to show how using the TERM variable results in unexpected behavior:
> 
>     Depending on $PWD, $TERM, etc isn't smart as they're controlled by
> the shell and external sources and can be modified out from under you
> (there's some recent discussion on the opengroup list that has
> transpired related to $PATH, $PWD, etc).
>     How about this instead:
> 
> 1. unset a predetermined env variable if it's present.
> 2. set it to a known value
> 3. Make sure that the env variable set in 2. matches both in the child
> and parent.
> 
>     If you submit this patch, I'll gladly commit it because it's more
> sane than the current test code.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

Ok, will do ASAP!

Thanks,
--
Cristian Greco
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