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On Mon Oct 24 14:16:10 2011, sprout wrote: > On Wed Jun 29 06:34:56 2011, eda@waniasset.com wrote: > > Nicholas Clark <nick <at> ccl4.org> writes: > > > > >[Sadly, I can't find reference to the far more "fun" bug, whereby at > > >csh start time, the current directory's name could end up being > > subject to > > >string evaluation, *with interpolation*, meaning that a nicely > > crafted > > >directory pathname could exploit any setuid script that happened to > > call > > >glob. > > > > Another bug caused by csh is that globbing doesn't work with filenames > > containing > > a space. That particular misfeature was preserved when the code was > > moved into > > perl itself. > > > > You can use quotation marks in that case: <"* copy.txt">. Due to a bug > (which I’m fixing), the quotation marks will be interpreted literally if > there are no spaces, or if the only spaces are at the beginning and end > of the pattern. And that bug is now fixed with commit 0b0e6d7.Thread Previous | Thread Next