cvs commit: src/usr.bin/env env.c

Garance A Drosehn gad at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 21 16:13:54 GMT 2005


At 9:37 PM +1000 6/21/05, Tim Robbins wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 20, 2005, Garance A Drosehn wrote:

>  > But I wouldn't mind to undo the '/' check, if people think that's
>>  a problem.  I only came up with that idea just before I was ready
>>  to commit, while I was stealing lines from the 'sh' man page...
>
>I think this would be best. It's an obscure edge case, but I'd
>prefer that we leant towards POSIX (which permits "/" in a portable
>environment variable name but not "=" in a portable file name)
>rather than leaning away from it for little gain.

No problem. Admittedly I didn't research that idea quite as much
as I should have.  I'll undo it later today or tomorrow.  (along
with a few other bug fixes I have for the new code...).

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =      gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA


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