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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 28, 2009 1:11 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by dwheeler
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

bash implemented an environment variable to tell subprocesses where
arguments began and ended at one point.

It was removed, but I can't remember why: some sort of compatibility
problem?

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Posted Mar 31, 2009 7:47 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

I was wondering now whether to ask about this on the Bash mailing lists. Just out of interest, are you involved with the development of Bash/the GNU tools in any way? You seem well informed about them.

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 31, 2009 19:28 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I've contributed fixes now and then, but I just read a lot. :) The
projects are public, after all.