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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