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Re: IFS hole?

From: shipley () merde dis org (Peter shipley)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 16:58:54 -0800


I wouldn't have thought the IFS environment variable should cause a
problem providing that the things that you are execving are not Bourne
Shell scripts (even then, as Peter Shipley says, it has been fixed
in most versions of the Bourne Shell). Since the Bourne
Shell has nothing to do with execv (unlike system, popen etc), the IFS
env var will have no effect.


you have to keep in mind that the programs you execv(2) could then
call a Bourne Shell either directly or indirectly.

Current thread:

Re: IFS hole? Yonathan (Dec 15)
- Re: IFS hole? abeckett () fmlrnd co uk (Dec 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IFS hole? mark kraitchman (Dec 15)
  - Re: IFS hole? Greg Woods (Dec 15)
  - IFS hole? Karyn Pichnarczyk (Dec 15)
- Re: IFS hole? henry strickland (Dec 15)
- Re: IFS hole? Peter shipley (Dec 15)
- Re: IFS hole? Rik Harris (Dec 15)
- Re: IFS hole? Christopher Davis (Dec 17)