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From: renkel@motcid.UUCP (Will Renkel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: YASB(Yet Another Shell Bug)?
Keywords: shell bug bourne
Message-ID: <4856@apricot12.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 91 11:36:01 GMT
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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I have been having a problem getting at jobs and cron jobs to run correctly.
It also affects the invoking of the shell when used with the pi(pe) command
of /usr/ucb/mail.  It seems that the invoked program is not always getting
the complete environment.  It seems that the environment variables are sorted
in alphabetic order but the first one is being lost on a random basis.
The cure is force the first variable to be a don't care (AGARBAGE).
Incidentally I use the Bourne shell on a Sun system.
Anyone else encounter this situation?  Any ideas?

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