On 12/14/14 4:44 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > There's still a (security) issue with > > declare -x/-l/-r > that may still be used in non-function contexts (not "export" or > "readonly"), and as result for things like: > > saved=$(export -p var) > ... > eval "$saved" > > And with declare -g in functions, so probably still worth > addressing.
What's your proposal? Let's see if we can get to something concrete. Something like what I proposed in one of my previous messages would probably work to make declare -a var=value closer to declare -a var; var=value -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/