From: byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
To: alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: ifs
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 03:21:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9310060721.AA21040@netapp.com> (raw)
I remember talking this over with Paul when I wrote rc. I think we
decided that ifs is akin to pid in that it is a per-shell rather than a
per-environment quantity. We didn't want to force script writers to
initialize ifs to prevent a trojan horse ifs, for example.
So, to answer your question, yes this was a deliberate choice and
is in our opinion correct.
next reply other threads:[~1993-10-06 7:49 UTC|newest]
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1993-10-06 7:21 Byron Rakitzis [this message]
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1993-10-06 18:56 ifs Paul Haahr
1993-10-06 8:48 ifs Alan Watson
1993-10-06 6:55 ifs Alan Watson
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