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It's so you can export a function into child shells: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1885871/exporting-a-function-in-shell http://stackoverflow.com/question
by bodyfour 12y ago
It's so you can export a function into child shells:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1885871/exporting-a-function-in-shell http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1885871/exporting-a-funct...
Hardly worth the security cost in retrospect, but some bash scripts will surely break if it were just ripped out.
- RexRollman 12y agoSeems like something that should be turned off by default and enabled when desired/needed.
- acdha 12y agoI was thinking the same thing – if there ever was a case for a "bash --allow-terribly-insecure-features" flag this is it.