Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:13:48 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/env env.c Message-ID: <p06210239bedde9fe04ff@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050621113748.GA59399@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <200506200314.j5K3EUtt089472@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050620094103.GB54301@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <p06210226bedca69d3945@[128.113.24.47]> <20050621113748.GA59399@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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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...). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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