From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Interesting post by Rob Pike in 1985: Shells, features and interaction
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:38:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fv04uooe.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877flgw816.fsf@fastmail.com>
Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> writes:
> 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?
I was able to find the information on how it was implemented in 8th
edition: Environment strings of the form "name(){value}", contrary to
pre-shellshock bash's "name=(){value}" - the latter certainly looks like
it was inspired by the former, though.
http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/5/environ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-18 0:38 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 [this message]
2015-11-18 0:50 ` Brantley Coile
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m2fv04uooe.fsf@fastmail.com \
--to=random832@fastmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).