Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > > > If not used carefully, the system(3C) function may be responsible for > > the following security concerns: > > > > + Execution of the command is affected by the PATH, IFS and other > > environment variables. > > None of our current shells evaluates the IFS environment variable.
The Bourne Shell (bin/sh) does. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily