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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:31:27 +0200
From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
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Subject: Re: Safe sourcing of rc files
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On Wed 2000-04-19 (16:51), Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> I have another idea:  We make a sh script named "rcsource" or whatever,
> which we source when we want to have the rc environment, stealing your
> code maliciously:
> 
> /--
> sourcercs_sourced_files=
> sourcercs ( ) {
>         local rc_conf_files
>         for i in $*; do
>                 case "${sourcercs_sourced_files}" in
>                 *:$i:*)
>                         ;;
>                 *)
>                         sourcercs_sourced_files="${sourcercs_sourced_files}:$i:"
>                         echo $i
>                         if [ -r $i ]; then
>                                 . $i
>                                 sourcercs ${rc_conf_files}
>                         fi
>                         ;;
>                 esac
>         done
> }
> sourcercs /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> \--

Unless someone comes back with negative feedback, I'll be pushing for a
commit for this (and all that depend on this change) on the weekend.

Consider this a request for review and comment.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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