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  • From: bugzilla-daemon AT metalab.unc.edu
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  • Subject: [SM-Sorcery-Bugs] [Bug 6539] handling of bash variables with spaces
  • Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:48:14 -0400

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6539





------- Additional Comments From pmahon AT sourcemage.org 2004-04-05 10:48
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Because any functions called while the IFS is different will use the different
IFS, giving them the potential for doing unexpected things. There was a time
when IFS was changed a lot, it caused many bugs that were hard to find.

It is done in iterator so that it doesn't have to be done elsewhere.

The one in libinitd should be modified to use iterator, but it does change it
back, the ( ... ) that enclose the function causes it to run in a subshell
(and
thus the modified environment doesn't get passed back to the parent). It still
should be fixed though.



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