From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: harald@redhat.com, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] var.c: check for valid variable name before printing in "export -p"
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:09:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120225150911.GB8575@stack.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120225143155.GA31891@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 01:31:55AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:30:04PM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> > Most shells pass the environment variable through, such as bash,
> > zsh, ksh93 and most ash derivatives. However, the original Bourne
> > shell and pdksh/mksh do not.
> Do you know of any genuine uses of such environment variables?
No, but I know that I do not know. I recommend noting the (small)
potential for breakage in the changelog. In a large body of software,
subtle features are often depended on somewhere, be it inadvertently.
--
Jilles Tjoelker
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-14 10:48 [PATCH] var.c: check for valid variable name before printing in "export -p" harald
2012-02-25 7:36 ` Herbert Xu
2012-02-25 14:30 ` Jilles Tjoelker
2012-02-25 14:31 ` Herbert Xu
2012-02-25 14:53 ` Eric Blake
2012-02-25 14:54 ` Herbert Xu
2012-02-25 15:09 ` Jilles Tjoelker [this message]
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