Re: IFS hole?

Peter shipley (shipley@merde.dis.org)
Wed, 15 Dec 1993 16:58:54 -0800

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>
>I wouldn't have thought the IFS environment variable should cause a
>problem providing that the things that you are execving are not Bourne
>Shell scripts (even then, as Peter Shipley says, it has been fixed
>in most versions of the Bourne Shell). Since the Bourne
>Shell has nothing to do with execv (unlike system, popen etc), the IFS
>env var will have no effect.

you have to keep in mind that the programs you execv(2) could then
call a Bourne Shell either directly or indirectly.

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