On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:30:04PM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
Most shells pass the environment variable through, such as bash, zsh,
ksh93 and most ash derivatives. However, the original Bourne shell and
pdksh/mksh do not.
Do you know of any genuine uses of such environment variables?
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 06:36:36PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:48:48AM +, har...@redhat.com wrote:
From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com
export -p prints all environment variables, without checking if the
environment variable is a valid dash variable name.
On 02/25/2012 07:31 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:30:04PM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
Most shells pass the environment variable through, such as bash, zsh,
ksh93 and most ash derivatives. However, the original Bourne shell and
pdksh/mksh do not.
Do you know of any
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:53:24AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
POSIX states that applications must not rely on such pass-through:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=168
So while it might indeed be useful to pass through invalid names, such
an application is broken for expecting it to work,
