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Date:      Thu, 1 May 1997 22:01:48 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /bin/sh -c and ENV
Message-ID:  <19970501220148.AS33168@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <87afmf616g.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>; from Andrew Gierth on May 1, 1997 09:34:15 %2B0100
References:  <87rafr6a0o.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> <19970501093129.LO56219@uriah.heep.sax.de> <87afmf616g.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>

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As Andrew Gierth wrote:

>  J> Feature.
> 
> Accidental misfeature or deliberate? What reasons exist that justify this
> behaviour? What does the POSIX standard say (if anything) about it?

Posix misfeature.  ENV, that it is.  But for other reasons than you
think of.

> I'm not concerned about *my* ENV file - but about others.

Why?  Somebody has to explicitly set the variable ENV.  If he does, he
assumes liability for the correctness of this file.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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