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Date:      Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:47:02 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c 
Message-ID:  <200101050247.f052l2149361@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:25:46 EST." <20010104182546.T86630@argon.firepipe.net> 
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In message <20010104182546.T86630@argon.firepipe.net> Will Andrews writes:
: > I'm still not sure about the shell environment actually buying
: > anything, but I could see how it might help.
: 
: I'm not understanding what you're saying here.

I'm saying I agree with Garrett in that I don't see what checking for
valid shells buys us in the general case.  I'm saying that maybe we
might save some sloppy cgi/shell progarmmer from him/her self when the
script kidz attack that script.  But that's sucha  large stretch that
I don't see that as a win.  Eg, it doesn't buy us much in real
situations.

Warner


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