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Reminds me of this: "Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help." — Tom Duff http://citeseerx.

Reminds me of this: "Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help." — Tom Duff http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41.3287&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41.... Sounds like a time-bomb for exploitable unexpected behavior.

krakensden 12y ago
I wonder how many people are relying on this behavior for their production systems. It can't be zero.
- marcosdumay 12y ago
  I wonder how many people knew about this behavior a week ago.
dscrd 12y ago
It's so cute when people ridicule superior engineering like plan 9 while they wallow in the incredible quagmire of so-called pragmatic systems.
wereHamster 12y ago
> Ree88. J. Reeds, ‘‘/bin/sh: the biggest UNIX security loophole,’’ 11217-840302-04TM, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1988).
- dfc 12y ago
  Do you have a copy of or link to that article? Or are you just pasting a citation with a cute title? I have stumbled across that citation a couple of times but I have never been able to find it.