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Re: REGRESSION: shellshock patch rejects valid function names


From: Stephane Chazelas
Subject: Re: REGRESSION: shellshock patch rejects valid function names
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:33:11 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

2014-09-29 09:04:00 -0600, Eric Blake:
[...]
> I would expect something like "It shall be an error if fname is the name
> of a special built-in utility", as _that_ would be a hard requirement on
> bash, not just the application.  Maybe we have a bug in the POSIX spec
> for a missing requirement.
[...]

Such a requirement would break bash, zsh, mksh, AT&T ksh (for
disciplines), which currently all allow a function called "a.b"

Cheers,
Stephane



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