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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:34:55 +0200, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> said:

> This could even do something like:

> exec /usr/libexec/ftpd $*

Make that:

exec /usr/libexec/ftpd ${1+"$@"}

(Unlikely to be necessary in the case of ftpd, but that's the correct
way in general.)

-GAWollman


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