Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

[David Korn <dgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cc: chet.ramey@case.edu
Subject: Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment
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> What should the shell do with environment strings that are not valid
> shell assignment statements?  The question came up about environment
> variable names containing characters outside the set permissible for
> shell variable names, but it could also apply to environment strings
> like `a' or `=a'.

This issue was presented to me last september by someone from Red Hat.
They said that dash and bash passed them along so I added this to ksh93.

I will do whatever the standard requires.  I would like
to hear argument on both sides.

David Korn
dgk@research.att.com