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Re: wordexp IFS fixes
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Subject: Re: wordexp IFS fixes
- From: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:48:13 +0100 (BST)
- cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
On 7 Sep 1998, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> |> Bash says that "set a b c" sets three positional parameters, so is this
> |> security hole only for non-whitespace IFS?
>
> This is not a case of IFS splitting.
The only parts of the spec I have access to at the moment are 3.2
("Quoting") and 3.6 ("Word Expansions").
Do you know off-hand which part talks about word splitting as opposed to
field splitting?
Tim.
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