From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 1 9:35:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE9937B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.muxi.com [206.40.252.115] (may be forged)) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f51GZQl74226; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f51GZMv04420; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:35:22 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dima Dorfman Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1) Message-ID: <20010601093521.B4306@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20010601042938.B31243E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010601042938.B31243E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:29:38PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:29:38PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Although this is a documented shortcoming, it's quite unnecessary > given how easy it is to fix it. Any objections to allowing '--' to > mean "end of env. variable assignments"? The orthoginal way (with grep, mv, et. al.) would be to use '==', not '--' as that is the problematic character. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message