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Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

To: Geoff Clare <gwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment
From: wollman+austin-group@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:16:18 -0400
Cc: austin-group-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
References: <4A4AC395.8070108@case.edu><20090701104343.GA16034@squonk.masqnet>
<<On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:43:43 +0100, Geoff Clare <gwc@opengroup.org> said:

> Bringing it back to the point at hand, the above quote says
> nothing about the environment passed to the executed utility,
> so when we fix that whole paragraph we can choose what
> requirement we want to make.  Presumably we will want it to
> allow both existing behaviours.

For what it's worth, zsh passes "foo@bar=baz" through to its children,
as does csh.

-GAWollman

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