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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-10-28 06:21:24 -0600
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-10-28 06:24:52 -0600
commit54491d275184428be6e28e3f22f04859b7288105 (patch)
tree55e9a5b42249bc370d9d72f940f0a24b8e233db9 /NEWS
parent42d12b45d35fc74e512a3c26adf49734525e4c6a (diff)
downloadcoreutils-54491d275184428be6e28e3f22f04859b7288105.tar.xz
printenv: ignore bogus variable names
Exposed by env a=b=c printenv a=b. * src/printenv.c (main): Silently reject = in names. * tests/misc/printenv: Test for it. * NEWS: Document this.
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@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.0]
env -u A=B now fails, rather than silently adding A to the
- environment. [the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
+ environment. Likewise, printenv A=B silently ignores the invalid
+ name. [the bugs date back to the initial implementation]
md5sum now prints checksums atomically so that concurrent
processes will not intersperse their output.