On Wednesday 13 November 2013 06:39:45 Irek Szczesniak wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > > Hi Everyone, hi Joel, > > > > the idea is nice, and I can really see that it is useful, but I would > > > > be extremely careful with introducing those kind of changes, it can be > > easily interpreted as "backdoor feature", that is: from security point > > of view it could be a disaster. > > ':' in *any* Unix paths is not wise because its already used by $PATH.
i don't think that matters here. we aren't talking about any path that is searched via $PATH, we're talking about a bash-internal pseudo path that is checked explicitly. there is no such /dev/tcp/ path on *nix systems; bash keys off that to do internal network parsing. -mike
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