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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:35:22 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1)
Message-ID:  <20010601093521.B4306@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010601042938.B31243E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:29:38PM -0700
References:  <20010601042938.B31243E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:29:38PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Although this is a documented shortcoming, it's quite unnecessary
> given how easy it is to fix it.  Any objections to allowing '--' to
> mean "end of env. variable assignments"?

The orthoginal way (with grep, mv, et. al.) would be to use '==', not
'--' as that is the problematic character.

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