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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: A security hole
Message-ID: <7443@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 12 Mar 88 22:07:08 GMT
References: <181@wsccs.UUCP> <722@rivm05.UUCP> <478@minya.UUCP> <892@cosmo.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <892@cosmo.UUCP> jum@cosmo.UUCP (Jens-Uwe Mager(sysop)) writes:
>This will not work with the Korn shell, there is a special check for IFS.

I couldn't find any valid reason for importing IFS, so the BRL Bourne
shell resets it to the default value at the beginning of a shell script.