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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




  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

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