A security hole

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Sun Mar 13 08:07:08 AEST 1988


In article <892 at cosmo.UUCP> jum at cosmo.UUCP (Jens-Uwe Mager(sysop)) writes:
>This will not work with the Korn shell, there is a special check for IFS.

I couldn't find any valid reason for importing IFS, so the BRL Bourne
shell resets it to the default value at the beginning of a shell script.



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