home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!airs!ian
- From: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Problem with apostrophe in mail address
- Message-ID: <5157@airs.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 02:53:39 GMT
- References: <221@visicom.com>
- Sender: news@airs.com
- Lines: 20
-
- makey@VisiCom.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:
-
- >Any idea why uuxqt barfs on an address with an apostrophe in it?
-
- Just guessing, but perhaps that version of uuxqt passes the command to
- sh. For security reasons it is checking the command to make sure that
- it does not contain any characters that the shell interprets
- specially.
-
- If uuxqt is passing the command to sh, it wouldn't work anyhow if it
- contains an apostrophe. There is probably no workaround (except
- changing mail addresses).
-
- Taylor UUCP supports this by using execve, or, if that fails, by
- passing the command to sh with each character quoted with backslash.
- --
- Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com uunet!airs!ian
- First person to identify this quote wins a free e-mail message:
- ``I would prefer my life to contain more hours of pain, if that means
- that none of this pain is still to come.''
-