From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:56:28 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Interesting post by Rob Pike in 1985: Shells, features and interaction In-Reply-To: <877flgw816.fsf@fastmail.com> Message-ID: <7694.1447811788@cesium.clock.org> That function export feature of bash was not the cause of the Shellshock vulnerability. The cause was idiot programmers who wrote CGI scripts for bash without proper data sanitization. See also https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-projects-to-replace-bash-the-Unix-shell/answer/Erik-Fair Erik