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From: brantleycoile@me.com (Brantley Coile)
Subject: [TUHS] Interesting post by Rob Pike in 1985: Shells, features and interaction
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:50:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8E0284E2-3BEC-4F68-B93F-CFC59C2CBD2F@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877flgw816.fsf@fastmail.com>

Tom Duff's shell, rc, exports the functions as variables as well. You can find it in the Plan 9 Ports utilities. Byron Rakitzis also write a version of rc.

> On Nov 17, 2015, at 5:55 PM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.unix/Cya18ywIebk/2SI8HrSciyYJ
> 
> Apparently the 8th Edition shell had the ability to export functions via
> the environment.
> 
> I'm wondering - were there (are there?) any other shells other than bash
> that picked up this feature? How was it implemented, considering this
> was the cause of the "Shellshock" vulnerability?
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-18  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-17 22:55 Random832
2015-11-18  0:38 ` Random832
2015-11-18  0:50 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2015-11-18 12:47   ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-11-18  1:56 ` Erik E. Fair
2015-11-18  5:15   ` Kurt H Maier
2015-11-18  5:36   ` Random832

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