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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] string to list? 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk> 
   of "Sun, 10 Jun 2001 22:48:51 BST." <002501c0f1f7$235fa220$6401a8c0@freeze2k> 
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:24:35 -0400
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| ...I thought that I could dictate the namespace that a process sees.

Yes, unless you someone makes a mistake.  But there's more to it
than that.  eval gives the bad guys unrestricted access to the shell,
which you probably don't want.