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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove shell dependency in env.c
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:30:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4329A1BE.60600@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vy85yahjk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>This patch adds an invocation of "env", so rsh.c works for C-shell users 
>>as well as Bourne shell users.
> 
> 
> Hmph.  I think the original code is buggy already.  If the path
> has a single quote in it, you would get into a problem.  If the
> remote end first interprets what is given to it with C-shell,
> then it probably would also barf if path had a '!' in it, too,
> even though we quote the entire thing within a single-quote
> pair.

True.  The better method is to \-escape any questionable characters, 
instead of trying to use quotes.  I'll try to write that up.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15  5:50 [PATCH] Remove shell dependency in env.c H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15  7:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 16:30   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-09-15 18:44   ` Shell quoting H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 19:31       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:50         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 20:18           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 20:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-16 19:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 19:33     ` [PATCH] rsh.c env and quoting cleanup, take 2 H. Peter Anvin

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