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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:29:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
To:        Arjan van der Oest <arjan@nl.demon.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD and Perl
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991229152921.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912291455530.72353-100000@bunker.noc.nl.demon.net>

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On 29-Dec-99 Arjan van der Oest wrote:
> We can just delete the entire sting, but that is no solution. We have
> customers who upload scripts to this webserver.

It is their own fault then if they do not understand the ramifications of such
actions. They should be responsible for their own scripts..

> Something is different and atm we're hacking into the kernel and now it's
> passing the entire shell argument as one argument into perl (which is
> believed to be the correct historical behaviour).

It's almost certainly not the kernel - most likely it's the shell or our Perl.

> I'm afraid a lot of ready-to-fly scripts out there contain this line and
> somehow break with the original 3.3 kernel.

See above.

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