From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 13:23:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13956 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 13:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA13949 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 13:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA10248 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 May 1997 22:23:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA01621; Thu, 1 May 1997 22:01:48 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970501220148.AS33168@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <87rafr6a0o.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> <19970501093129.LO56219@uriah.heep.sax.de> <87afmf616g.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <87afmf616g.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>; from Andrew Gierth on May 1, 1997 09:34:15 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)