Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes: > It's not a bug. Posix explicitly restricts environment variable names > to consist of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and > underscores.
POSIX only talks about their use in POSIX utilities. It does not say anything about non-POSIX utilities and extensions (and using other characters _is_ a proper extension). > There is no provision for variables with invalid names that don't > exactly exist and are just passed down to applications in their > environment. POSIX explicitly says that other characters may be permitted, and Unix does permit them, just like Unix permits any character except / and NUL in filenames. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
